Sway of the Ottoman Empire on English Identity in the Long Eighteenth Century

Emily M.N. Kugler, B.A. Scripps Women's College and Ph.D from University of California San Diego, is Assistant Professor of British Eighteenth-Century literature at Colby College. Through an interdisciplinary approach to Eighteenth-Century Studies, she focuses on the migration of cultural ideas across geographic, socio-economic, and temporal spaces. Her work draws on cultural histories of the Transatlantic, the Ottoman Empire, Central and Western Europe, as well as East Asia.

All those interested in intellectual history, eighteenth-century studies, English interations with the Mediterranean, history of racial representations, Orientalism.

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The ‘Other’ England: Ottoman Influence on English Identity

PART ONE
1. Captivity Apostasy and Imperial Anxieties: English Fantasies and Fears of the Ottoman Influence
2. Arabic Castaways in the High and Low Churches: Debating English Protestantism in the Seventeenth-Century Ibn Tufayl Translations
3. The Ottoman Influence in Robinson Crusoe: Failures of English Imperial Identity

PART TWO
4. Race and Romance: Othello, Oroonoko and the Decline of the Ottoman Influence
5. “I Am Not What I Am”: Reimagining Shakespeare‘s Moor of Venice
6. Oriental Princes and Noble Slaves: Romance Models of Race in Oroonoko, 1688-1788

Conclusion: The Continued Anxieties of Empire: After the Ottoman Influence
Bibliography
Name Index