Remapping the Mediterranean World in Early Modern English Writings

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Beyond the Olive Trees: Remapping the Mediterranean World in Early Modern English Writings

   • Goran V. Stanivukovic

   Pages 1-20

3. Emplotting the Early Modern Mediterranean

   • Jonathan Burton

   Pages 21-40

4. Poisoned Figs, or “The Traveler’s Religion”: Travel, Trade, and Conversion in Early Modern English Culture

   • Daniel Vitkus

   Pages 41-57

5. Cruising the Mediterranean: Narratives of Sexuality and Geographies of the Eastern Mediterranean in Early Modern English Prose Romances

   • Goran V. Stanivukovic

   Pages 59-74

6. Imperial Lexicography and the Anglo-Spanish War

   • Edmund Valentine Campos

   Pages 75-95

7. The Battle of Alcazar, the Mediterranean, and the Moor

   • Emily C. Bartels

   Pages 97-116

8. Mythologizing the Ottoman: The Jew of Malta and The Battle of Alcazar

   • Leeds Barroll

   Pages 117-130

9. Another Country: Marlowe and the Go-Between

   • Richard Wilson

   Pages 131-156

10. “Come from Turkie”: Mediterranean Trade in Late Elizabethan London

    • Alan Stewart

    Pages 157-177

11. Barnaby Riche’s Appropriation of Ireland and the Mediterranean World, or How Irish is “The Turk”?

    • Constance C. Relihan

    Pages 179-189

12. Theaters of Empire in Milton’s Epics

    • Elizabeth Sauer

    Pages 191-205

13. Turning to the Turk: Collaboration and Conversion in William Davenant’s The Siege of Rhodes

    • Matthew Birchwood

    Pages 207-226

14. Satirizing English Tangier in Samuel Pepys’s Diary and Tangier Papers

    • Adam R. Beach

    Pages 227-244

15. From Invasion to Inquisition: Mapping Malta in Early Modern England

    • Bernadette Andrea

    Pages 245-271

16. Afterword

    • Daniel Goffman

    Pages 273-287

17. Back Matter

    Pages 289-296

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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.

• Narrative
• prose
• space

'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

• The University of Sheffield, UK

  Goran V. Stanivukovic

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

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