Remapping the Mediterranean World in Early Modern English Writings [Paperback]

The essays in this volume explore the Mediterranean both as a physical and cultural space, and as a conceptual notion that challenges the boundaries between East and West. It emphasizes the Ottoman Mediterranean, by exploring a variety of literary and non-literary texts produced between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth centuries.Introduction: Beyond the Olive Trees: Re-Mapping the Mediterranean World in Early Modern English Writings; G.V.Stanivukovic Emplotting the Early Modern Mediterranean; J.Burton Poisoned Figs, or Traveler's Religion : Travel, Trade, and Conversion in Early Modern English Culture; D.Vitkus Cruising the Mediterranean: Narratives of Sexuality and Geographies of the Eastern Mediterranean in Early Modern English Prose Romances; G.V.Stanivukovic Imperial Lexicography and the Anglo-Spanish War; E.V.Campos The Battle of Alcazar, the Mediterranean, and the Moor; E.C.Bartels Mythologizing the Ottoman: The Jew of Malta and The Battle of Alcazar; L.Barroll Another Country: Marlowe and the Go-Between; R.Wilson Come from Turkey : Mediterranean Trade in Late Elizabethan London; A.Stewart Barnaby Riche's Appropriation of Ireland and the Mediterranean World, or How Irish is The Turk ?; C.C.Relihan Theatres of Empire in Milton's Epics; E.Sauer Turning to the Turk: Collaboration and Conversion in William Davenant's The Siege of Rhodes; M.Birchwood Satirizing English Tangier in Samuel Pepys's Diary and Tangier Papers; A.R.Beach From Invasion to Inquisition: Mapping Malta in Early Modern England; B.Andrea Afterword; D.Goffman

'A rich set of essays on the English rhetorical and ideological construction of the Mediterranean world, this collection usefully expands both the critical archive and the scholarly conversation.' - Barbara Fuchs, Professor of Romance Languages and Comparative, University of Pennsylvania

GORAN V. STANIVUKOVIC is Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK.