Mary Roberts

Intimate Outsiders

The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Comparative study of 19th-century representations of Ottoman harems that considers both the tradition of British paintings and writings about harems as well as the perspectives of Ottoman women who commissioned their own harem portraits.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 164mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780822339564
• ISBN-10: 0822339560
• Artikelnr.: 22877808

Autorenporträt

Mary Roberts

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Intimate Outsiders 1
Part 1: John Frederick Lewis's Harem Paintings
Chapter One. The Languid Lotus-Eater 19
Chapter Two. "Mr. Lewis's Oriental paradises" 38
Part 2: British Women's Travelogues
Chapter Three. Pleasures in Detail 59
Chapter Four. Being Seen 80
Chapter Five. Sartorial Adventures and Satiric Narratives 92
Part 3: Harem Portraiture
Chapter Six. The Politics of Portraiture behind the Veil 109
Chapter Seven. Oriental Dreams 128
Epilogue 150
Notes 157
Selected Bibliography 177
Index 187