Remapping the Mediterranean World in Early Modern English Writings

Herausgegeben:Stanivukovic, G.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Early Modern Cultural Studies
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-53625-2
• 1st ed. 2007
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781349536252
• ISBN-10: 1349536253
• Artikelnr.: 45082924

Autorenporträt

GORAN V. STANIVUKOVIC is Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Beyond the Olive Trees: Re-Mapping the Mediterranean World in Early Modern English Writings; G.V.Stanivukovic Emplotting the Early Modern Mediterranean; J.Burton Poisoned Figs, or "Traveler's Religion": Travel, Trade, and Conversion in Early Modern English Culture; D.Vitkus Cruising the Mediterranean: Narratives of Sexuality and Geographies of the Eastern Mediterranean in Early Modern English Prose Romances; G.V.Stanivukovic Imperial Lexicography and the Anglo-Spanish War; E.V.Campos The Battle of Alcazar, the Mediterranean, and the Moor; E.C.Bartels Mythologizing the Ottoman: The Jew of Malta and The Battle of Alcazar; L.Barroll Another Country: Marlowe and the Go-Between; R.Wilson "Come from Turkey": Mediterranean Trade in Late Elizabethan London; A.Stewart Barnaby Riche's Appropriation of Ireland and the Mediterranean World, or How Irish is "The Turk"?; C.C.Relihan Theatres of Empire in Milton's Epics; E.Sauer Turning to the Turk: Collaboration and Conversion in William Davenant's The Siege of Rhodes; M.Birchwood Satirizing English Tangier in Samuel Pepys's Diary and Tangier Papers; A.R.Beach From Invasion to Inquisition: Mapping Malta in Early Modern England; B.Andrea Afterword; D.Goffman

Rezensionen

'A rich set of essays on the English rhetorical and ideological construction of the Mediterranean world, this collection usefully expands both the critical archive and the scholarly conversation.' - Barbara Fuchs, Professor of Romance Languages and Comparative, University of Pennsylvania