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Remapping the Mediterranean World in Early Modern English Writings / edited by G. Stanivukovic.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700, 2634-5900
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- Communication.
- European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600.
- European literature.
- Sex.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Media and Communication.
- Cultural Studies.
- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.
- Gender Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Media and Communication.
- Cultural Studies.
- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.
- Gender Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2007.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The essays in this volume explore the Mediterranean both as a physical and cultural space, and as a conceptual notion that challenges the boundaries between East and West. It emphasizes the Ottoman Mediterranean, by exploring a variety of literary and non-literary texts produced between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth centuries.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Contributors; Introduction: Beyond the Olive Trees: Remapping the Mediterranean World in Early Modern English Writings; 1 Emplotting the Early Modern Mediterranean; 2 Poisoned Figs, or "The Traveler's Religion": Travel, Trade, and Conversion in Early Modern English Culture; 3 Cruising the Mediterranean: Narratives of Sexuality and Geographies of the Eastern Mediterranean in Early Modern English Prose Romances; 4 Imperial Lexicography and the Anglo-Spanish War
- 5 The Battle of Alcazar, the Mediterranean, and the Moor6 Mythologizing the Ottoman: The Jew of Malta and The Battle of Alcazar; 7 Another Country: Marlowe and the Go-Between; 8 "Come from Turkie": Mediterranean Trade in Late Elizabethan London; 9 Barnaby Riche's Appropriation of Ireland and the Mediterranean World, or How Irish is "The Turk"?; 10 Theaters of Empire in Milton's Epics; 11 Turning to the Turk: Collaboration and Conversion in William Davenant's The Siege of Rhodes; 12 Satirizing English Tangier in Samuel Pepys's Diary and Tangier Papers
- 13 From Invasion to Inquisition: Mapping Malta in Early Modern EnglandAfterword; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611361341
- 9781281361349
- 1281361348
- 9780230601840
- 0230601847
- OCLC:
- 314791940
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