The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763) (Broadview Editions) [Idioma Inglés] - Tapa blanda

Montagu, Mary Wortley

 
9781554810420: The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763) (Broadview Editions) [Idioma Inglés]
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ISBN 10: 1554810426 ISBN 13: 9781554810420
Editorial: Broadview Press Ltd, 2012

Sinopsis

In 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's husband Edward Montagu was appointed British ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire. Despite discouragement from friends that feared for her safety, she accompanied her husband to Turkey and wrote an extraordinary series of letters that recorded her experiences as a traveller and her impressions of Ottoman culture and society. These letters, addressed primarily to her sister and to Alexander Pope, became the basis for a highly crafted text that was not published until 1763. Like many women who rebelled against gender conventions, Montagu was the target of vicious attacks from her contemporaries. But her status as a woman traveller is crucial to her distinctive perspective, and one can argue that her letters offer a feminist alternative to much of the orientalist writing of both the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This edition includes a broad selection of related historical documents on Turkey, women in the Arab world, Islam, and "Oriental" tales written in Europe.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Acerca del autor

Teresa Heffernan is Associate Professor of English at St. Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Daniel O'Quinn is Professor of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph.

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In 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's husband Edward Montagu was appointed British ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire. Montagu accompanied her husband to Turkey and wrote an extraordinary series of letters that recorded her experiences as a traveller and her impressions of Ottoman culture and society.

This Broadview edition includes a broad selection of related historical documents on Turkey, women in the Arab world, Islam, and "Oriental" tales written in Europe.

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Editorial
Broadview Press Ltd
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1554810426
ISBN 13 
9781554810420
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
300
Editor
O'Quinn Daniel, Heffernan Teresa
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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9781853816796: The Turkish Embassy Letters [Idioma Inglés] (Virago Modern Classics)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  1853816795 ISBN 13:  9781853816796
Editorial: Virago Press Ltd, 1994
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