Remapping the Mediterranean World in Early Modern English Writings

by Stanivukovic, Goran V.

• ISBN13: 9781403975577
• ISBN10: 1403975574
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-09
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection brings together thirteen new essays that examine England's fascination with, and fantasies about, the Mediterranean in the early modern period. The essays in this volume employ the Mediterranean both as a physical and cultural space, and as an idea that challenges boundaries between the East and the West. It does so by emphasizing the Ottoman Mediterranean and by exploring a variety of literary and non-literary texts produced between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The Afterword, written by an Ottomanist, engages in a dialogue with literary scholars and offers new pathways in the study of the Mediterranean, especially its eastern part.

Author Biography

Goran V. Stanivukovic is Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the editor of Emanuel Ford: Ornatus and Artesia (2003), Ovid and the Renaissance Body (2001), and co-editor, with Constance C. Relihan, of Prose Fiction and Early Modern Sexualities in England, 1570-1640) (Palgrave, 2003).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Series Editor's Foreword	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
About the Contributors	xiii
Introduction: Beyond the Olive Trees: Remapping the Mediterranean World in Early Modern English Writings	1
Goran V. Stanivukovic
1 Emplotting the Early Modern Mediterranean	21
Jonathan Burton
2 Poisoned Figs, or "The Traveler's Religion": Travel, Trade, and Conversion in Early Modern English Culture	41
Daniel Vitkus
3 Cruising the Mediterranean: Narratives of Sexuality and Geographies of the Eastern Mediterranean in Early Modern English Prose Romances	59
Goran V. Stanivukovic
4 Imperial Lexicography and the Anglo-Spanish War	75
Edmund Valentine Campos
5 The Battle of Alcazar, the Mediterranean, and the Moor	97
Emily C. Bartels
6 Mythologizing the Ottoman: The Jew of Malta and The Battle of Alcazar	117
Leeds Barroll
7 Another Country: Marlowe and the Go-Between	131
Richard Wilson
8 "Come from Turkie": Mediterranean Trade in Late Elizabethan London	157
Alan Stewart
9 Barnaby Riche's Appropriation of Ireland and the Mediterranean World, or How Irish is "The Turk"?	179
Constance C. Relihan
10 Theaters of Empire in Milton's Epics	191
Elizabeth Sauer
11 Turning to the Turk: Collaboration and Conversion in William Davenant's The Siege of Rhodes	207
Matthew Birchwood
12 Satirizing English Tangier in Samuel Pepys's Diary and Tangier Papers	227
Adam R. Beach
13 From Invasion to Inquisition: Mapping Malta in Early Modern England	245
Bernadette Andrea
Afterword	273
Daniel Goffman
Index	289