Examining the transformation of the Ottoman empire (and its Byzantine ghosts) through an examination of Constantinople/Istanbul, this book looks at the effect of the cityâ s complicated history on Romantic and Victorian writers and artists.
Examining the transformation of the Ottoman empire (and its Byzantine ghosts) through an examination of Constantinople/Istanbul, this book looks at the effect of the cityâ s complicated history on Romantic and Victorian writers and artists.
Piya Pal-Lapinski is Associate Professor of English at Bowling Green State University, USA. She is the author of The Exotic Woman in Nineteenth Century British Fiction and Culture (2004) and co-editor of Byron and the Politics of Freedom and Terror (2011). Her research focuses on the interdisciplinary and global contexts of nineteenth century literature and its intersections with contemporary theory.
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List of Figures Introduction Chapter 1. The Stones of Constantinople: Walter Scott, The Last Man, and the Fossati restoration of the Hagia Sophia Chapter 2. Byron Pasha in Istanbul with Shelley, Mozart and Rossini: The Seductions of Ottoman Sovereignty Chapter 3. Champagne and Conversion: Thomas Hope's Libertine on the Golden Horn Chapter 4. Janissaries, Devsirme, Vampirism: The Haunted Balkans and Lands of Rum Chapter 5. "Lend me a Pen of Fire:" Julia Pardoe's City on the Bosphorus Chapter 6. Victorian Ottomania : Disraeli and Tancred Chapter 7. "The Sultan's New Palace on the Bosphorus": Imagining Dolmabahçe and beyond Bibliography
List of Figures Introduction Chapter 1. The Stones of Constantinople: Walter Scott, The Last Man, and the Fossati restoration of the Hagia Sophia Chapter 2. Byron Pasha in Istanbul with Shelley, Mozart and Rossini: The Seductions of Ottoman Sovereignty Chapter 3. Champagne and Conversion: Thomas Hope's Libertine on the Golden Horn Chapter 4. Janissaries, Devsirme, Vampirism: The Haunted Balkans and Lands of Rum Chapter 5. "Lend me a Pen of Fire:" Julia Pardoe's City on the Bosphorus Chapter 6. Victorian Ottomania : Disraeli and Tancred Chapter 7. "The Sultan's New Palace on the Bosphorus": Imagining Dolmabahçe and beyond Bibliography
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