...Ali Uzay Peker The College of William & Mary 2002 ECL26310-Peker.q4.jw.SH 3/25/03 3:35 PM Page 139 Western Influences on the Ottoman Empire and Occidentalism in the Architecture of Istanbul...

...: Ottoman Architectural Culture in the Eighteenth Century Sibel Zandi-­Sayek College of William and Mary Shirine Hamadeh. The City’s Pleasures: Istanbul in the Eighteenth Century (Seattle: Univ. of Washington, 2008). Pp. xiv + 350. 105...

...James Grehan Sajdi Dana . The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant . ( Stanford : Stanford Univ. , 2013 ). Pp. xv + 293 . $60 Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Review Essay The World...

...‐tragedy's depiction of enslaved European women in the Ottoman Empire. Evoking Desdemona in the then‐popular Othello , Imoinda offers a rare moment when the actress's whiteness is named as such diegetically. The stage Oroonoko shines a spotlight on the way that gendered performance worked through...

...-Century Life Volume 27, Number 3, Fall 2003 © 2003 by The College of William & Mary 124 125 and parts of south-eastern Europe. The Ottomans controlled the eastern and southern shores...

... that does not record [the] events” of the siege of Vienna.1 Eighteenth-Century Life Volume 27, Number 3, Fall 2003 © 2003 by The College of William & Mary 31 32 Eighteenth-Century Life During the summer a large army of Ottoman Turks...

..., which are the territories she ranges over as she thinks about the wrecking of the Britannia ? The ship, we learn, was on a voyage from Alexandria to Venice, sailing the well-trafficked trading routes of the Mediterranean. The Britannia stops at Candia (Crete, then ruled by the Ottoman Turks...

... in North Africa and elsewhere in the Ottoman Empire (43 44). The larger context of Defoe s representation of Crusoe s ¨rst imprisonment is the Ottoman Empire s long-standing con³ict with Europe, one that started at roughly the same time that England s main European antagonists and Defoe s national...

... the mental tyranny wrought by the despots of the Ottoman Empire, the country would serve as a carefully tended garden wherein the populace, like Rousseau’s natural man, would flourish. Even when the Egyptian expedition failed and the order was transferred to Paris, the Sophisians continued to attract...

... the influence of the European style of Baroque on traditional Ottoman architecture. A rigorous analysis of Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s oriental imagery allows Walter Veit to explore the tensions between sym- pathy for the culture of the Orient and the wish to appropriate its...

.... On the one hand, Britain was the leader of Europe’s “Protestant Interest” and the inveterate enemy of Catho- lic France. On the other, Britain and Ireland were a part of “Christendom,” which defined itself, in the early eighteenth century, against the threat of Islam as represented by the Ottoman...

... of Resentment or prejudice, and I speak with the same Indifference of the Court of G[reat] B[ritain] as I should do of that of Augustus Cæsar.1 The accomplished poet, travel-writer of Europe and the Ottoman Empire, and friend, then public foe, of Alexander Pope, sounds pleased with her work...

... to their notoriously horrific conditions. What is particularly intriguing is that he never comments anywhere on the slave trade, even though he surely knew sailors in the trade, and sailed on ships financed through slavery that carried slave-made goods. The Shipwreck laments the Ottoman “enslavement” of Greece...

... Sajdi, Dana. The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant (Stanford: Stanford Univ., 2013). Pp. xv + 293. $60 Schmid, Susanne. British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Pp. xi...

... in Portraiture, 1720–1892 (Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell, 2002). Pp. 156. $59.50. ISBN 0-8387-5495-3 Quataert, Donald. The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922 (New York: Cambridge Univ., 2000). Pp. 204. $20. ISBN 0-521-63360-5 O’Neal, John C. Changing Minds...

... elements that could be applied toward the decoration of modern buildings, they decided to make their mark on the world by producing a similar work concentrating on the antiquities of Attica, at that time an exotic and dangerous destination under the Islamic governance of the Ottoman Empire...

... reader a sense of being made privy to a “secret” life, while also fostering a suspicion of being “manipulated” by the letter writer, such as the rake-­seducer of Aphra Behn’s Love-­Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684 – 87), or the informant anxious to please his Ottoman employer...

... State of the Ottoman Empire (1709). Keymer cites the possible parallel in Hill, but one wonders where the others might be found — perhaps, as seems likely, in other works mentioned in the notes, like John Greaves’s Pyramidographia (1646), Charles de Saint-­Maure’s A New Journey through Greece...

... differentiation, so that the search for uniform appearance and form in all arts and sciences and in all climes would amount to demanding that all peoples on Earth should have the same skin color and physiognomyAn old Ottoman once told me...

... of the painting. Exotic, rare, and expensive blooms, like the semper augustus (the red-and-white striped tulip), which hailed from the Ottoman Empire and nearly toppled the Dutch economy in the tulip mania of the 1630s, together with golden lilies and tuberoses, vie with common, English wildflowers: sprays...