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Kurztext
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This book is about the principal writings that shaped the perception of Turkey for informed readers in English, from Edward Gibbon's positing of imperial Decline and Fall to the proclamation of the Turkish Republic (1923), illustrating how Turkey has always been a part of the modern British and European experience. It is a great sweep of a story: from Gibbon as standard textbook, through Lord Bryon the pro-Turkish poet, and Benjamin Disraeli the Romantic novelist of all things Eastern, followed by John Buchan's Greenmantle First World War espionage fantasies, and then Manchester Guardian reporter Arnold Toynbee narrating the fight for Turkish independence.
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Autorenportrait
- David S. Katz is Director of the Lessing Institute for European History and Civilization at Tel Aviv University, Israel where he has taught since 1978. He also holds the Abraham Horodisch Chair for the History of Books.
Detailansicht
The Shaping of Turkey in the British Imagination, 1776-1923
ISBN/EAN: 9783319822563
Umbreit-Nr.: 5447436
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: XI, 299 S., 1 farbige Illustr., 299 p. 1 illus. in
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 15.06.2018
Auflage: 1/2016