The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe

The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe edited by Marcus Keller, Javier Irigoyen-García.

Uniting twelve original studies by scholars of early modern history, literature, and the arts, this collection is the first that foregrounds the dialectical quality of early modern Orientalism by taking a broad interdisciplinary perspective. Dialectics of Orientalism demonstrates how texts and image...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Keller, Marcus (Editor), Irigoyen-García, Javier (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Europe—History—1492-.
Civilization—History.
Intellectual life—History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. ORIENTALIST EPISTEMOLOGIES
  • “A Captive Library between Morocco and Spain” (Oumelbanine Zhiri)
  • “Political Pragmatism, Humanist Ideals, and Early Modern Orientalism in Busbecq’s Turkish Letters” (Kaya Şahin)
  • “Competing Forms of Knowledge in Adam Olearius’s Orientalische Reise (1647)” (Aigi Heero and Maris Saagpakk)
  • Part II. EMPIRE AND ITS ORIENTS
  • “The Discourse on the Chinese and Muslim Worlds in the Hispanic Empire (New Spain and Castile, 1550-1650)” (José L. Gasch-Tomás and Natalia Maillard Álvarez)
  • “Mapping Islam in the Philippines: Moro Anxieties of the Spanish Empire in the Pacific” (Ana María Rodríguez-Rodríguez)
  • “The Invention of Europe and the Intellectual Struggle for Political Imagination: Spanish Humanism on the Ottomans” (Natalio Ohanna)
  • Part III. ORIENTALISM AND THE IDEA OF EUROPE
  • “Europe, France, and the Ottoman Empire in the Essais: Montaigne’s Dialectics” (Marcus Keller)
  • “Mehmed II and His Woman: The Idea of Europe in Early Modern Representations of a Female Captive” (David Moberly)
  • “Was There a Pan-European Orientalism? Icelandic and Flemish Perspectives on Captivity in Muslim North Africa (1628-1656)” (Toby Wikström)
  • Part IV. VISUAL DIALECTICS
  • “Christian of Ottoman Europe in Sixteenth-Century Costume Books” (Robyn D. Radway)
  • “Amazon Battle and the Seventeenth-Century Antwerp Painting Canon” (Lisa Rosenthal)
  • “The Architectural Setting of ‘Empire’: the English Experience of Ottoman Spectacle in the Late Seventeenth Century and Its Consequences” (Lydia M. Soo).

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