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000688390 1001_ $$aToner, J. P.
000688390 24510 $$aHomer's Turk$$h[electronic resource] :$$bhow classics shaped ideas of the East /$$cJerry Toner.
000688390 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c2013.
000688390 300__ $$a1 online resource (x, 306 p.)
000688390 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000688390 5050_ $$aMachine generated contents note: pt. I Contexts -- 1. Classicizing Orientalisms -- 2. The Uses of Classics -- 3. Classics and Medieval Images of Islam -- pt. II Texts -- 4. Traders and Travelers -- 5. Gibbon's Islam -- 6. The Roman Raj -- 7. Empires Ancient and Modern -- 8. Colonial Adventures -- pt. III Afterwords -- 9. Screen Classics -- 10. America Roma Nova.
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000688390 520__ $$aA seventeenth-century English traveler to the Eastern Mediterranean would have faced a problem in writing about this unfamiliar place: how to describe its inhabitants in a way his countrymen would understand? In an age when a European education meant mastering the Classical literature of Greece and Rome, he would naturally turn to touchstones like the Iliad to explain the exotic customs of Ottoman lands. His Turk would have been Homer's Turk.An account of epic sweep, spanning the Crusades, the Indian Raj, and the postwar decline of the British Empire, Homer's Turk illuminates how English writers of all eras have relied on the Classics to help them understand the world once called "(Bthe Orient." Ancient Greek and Roman authors, Jerry Toner shows, served as a conceptual frame of reference over long periods in which trade, religious missions, and imperial interests shaped English encounters with the East. Rivaling the Bible as a widespread, flexible vehicle of Western thought, the Classics provided a ready model for portrayal and understanding of the Oriental Other. Such image-making, Toner argues, persists today in some of the ways the West frames its relationship with the Islamic world and the rising powers of India and China. Discussing examples that range from Jacobean travelogues to Hollywood blockbusters, Homer's Turk proves that there is no permanent version of either the ancient past or the East in English writing--the two have been continually reinvented alongside each other.
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000688390 650_0 $$aClassical literature$$xInfluence.
000688390 650_0 $$aHistoriography$$zGreat Britain$$xHistory.
000688390 650_0 $$aOrientalism$$zGreat Britain$$xHistory.
000688390 650_0 $$aTravel writing$$zGreat Britain$$xHistory.
000688390 651_0 $$aOrient$$xDescription and travel$$xEarly works to 1800.
000688390 651_0 $$aOrient$$xHistoriography$$xHistory.
000688390 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aToner, J. P.$$tHomer's Turk.$$dCambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013$$z9780674073142$$w(DLC) 2012031914$$w(OCoLC)808008551
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