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The Not-Forgotten Empire: Images of Persia in English Renaissance Writing
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02 September 2010
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Abstract
This essay argues that the image of Persia is a familiar, largely positive and particularly compelling one for English Renaissance readers and writers. It surveys the range of sources of information available, and the kinds of uses to which they were put. Challenging the weight of recent scholarship on the Ottomans which presents them writ large as the representatives of the 'East' for English audiences and readers, I hope to show that the distinctiveness of Persia in the English imagination is an important counter-weight to this sense of Eastern difference predicated on conceptions of Ottoman threat.
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Wiley
Journal
Literature Compass
Volume
7
Issue
9
Start Page
912
End Page
921
Copyright (Published Version)
2010 the Author and Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
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