This collection brings together thirteen new essays that examine England's fascination with, and fantasies about, the Mediterranean in the early modern period. The essays in this volume employ the Mediterranean both as a physical and cultural space, and as an idea that challenges boundaries between the East and the West. It does so by emphasizing the Ottoman Mediterranean and by exploring a variety of literary and non-literary texts produced between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The Afterword, written by an Ottomanist, engages in a dialogue with literary scholars and offers new pathways in the study of the Mediterranean, especially its eastern part.
Author(s): Goran V. Stanivukovic
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 320
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Series Editor’s Foreword......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
About the Contributors......Page 14
Introduction: Beyond the Olive Trees: Remapping the Mediterranean World in Early Modern English Writings......Page 18
1 Emplotting the Early Modern Mediterranean......Page 38
2 Poisoned Figs, or “The Traveler’s Religion”: Travel, Trade, and Conversion in Early Modern English Culture......Page 58
3 Cruising the Mediterranean: Narratives of Sexuality and Geographies of the Eastern Mediterranean in Early Modern English Prose Romances......Page 76
4 Imperial Lexicography and the Anglo-Spanish War......Page 92
5 The Battle of Alcazar, the Mediterranean, and the Moor......Page 114
6 Mythologizing the Ottoman: The Jew of Malta and The Battle of Alcazar......Page 134
7 Another Country: Marlowe and the Go-Between......Page 148
8 “Come from Turkie”: Mediterranean Trade in Late Elizabethan London......Page 174
9 Barnaby Riche’s Appropriation of Ireland and the Mediterranean World, or How Irish is “The Turk”?......Page 196
10 Theaters of Empire in Milton’s Epics......Page 208
11 Turning to the Turk: Collaboration and Conversion in William Davenant’s The Siege of Rhodes......Page 224
12 Satirizing English Tangier in Samuel Pepys’s Diary and Tangier Papers......Page 244
13 From Invasion to Inquisition: Mapping Malta in Early Modern England......Page 262
Afterword......Page 290
B......Page 306
E......Page 307
H......Page 308
L......Page 309
M......Page 310
Q......Page 311
T......Page 312
Z......Page 313
