The Turkish Embassy Letters
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Book Overview
The critical and biographical introduction tells of Lady Wortley Montagu's travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her lively letters offer insights into the paradoxical freedoms conferred on Muslim women by the veil, the value of experimental work by Turkish doctors on inoculation, and the beauty of Arab poetry and culture. The ability to study another culture according to its own values...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1853816795
ISBN13:9781853816796
Release Date:January 1994
Publisher:Virago Press (UK)
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.44 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.0" x 7.6"
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Academic, but a good view of British Orientalist literature
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
I read this novel for a class in British Orientalist literature. It's a series of letters written by a woman who travels to the East. Read it in conjunction with _Arabian Nights_, _Vathek_, _Rasselas_, and some other Orientalist tales, and you can get some interesting insights in eighteenth century England and the exotic/erotic elements of the East.
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