Purchas His Pruning: Refashioning the Ottomans in Seventeenth-Century Travel Narratives

McJannet, Linda

doi:10.1525/hlq.2011.74.2.219

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“…These depictions coexisted alongside more neutral and even positive accounts. 27 In acknowledging the diversity of Ottoman identities across their vast empire, early modern travel texts counter the Saidian assertion that European representations necessarily homogenised other cultures. Fourthly, Said's conception of authoritative European representational power is offset by counterexamples, such as the slavery narratives of European captives enslaved in North African ports and the reverse Orientalism (or 'Occidentalism') found in texts by Muslim visitors to Europe.…”

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‘Orientalismis a Partisan Book’: Applying Edward Said's Insights to Early Modern Travel Writing

Roddan

2016

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Since its publication in 1978, Edward Said's Orientalism has had a significant impact on postcolonial studies in a range of fields. This paper assesses his impact on the historiography of Anglophone travel writing concerning Ottoman Empire during the early modern period. Said's analysis of the relationship between representational power and colonial authority remains relevant to our understanding of early modern travel texts.Said's epistemology raises significant issues for historians of early modern intercultural encounters. This article summarises recent debates surrounding early modern travel narratives. It contrasts doctrinaire applications of Said's theory with more recent, particularistic studies. It provides a much-needed survey of travel writing historiography that considers the continuing impact of Said's postcolonial thought on the study of early modern travel narratives relating to the Ottoman Middle East.In so doing, it explores the lack of fit between early modern travel narratives and Said's methodology. I explore the methodological problems thrown up by conventional applications of Said's epistemology to precolonial travellers' texts. Based on a wide-ranging survey of Said's oeuvre, the article demonstrates that, more than 30 years on, Said's work remains relevant to the historiographical challenges presented by early modern English travel writing about Islam.

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‘Orientalismis a Partisan Book’: Applying Edward Said's Insights to Early Modern Travel Writing

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2016

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“…Similarly, Levison Wood's account of his time in the Himalayas thanks an extensive editorial team at Hodder and Stoughton (2016: 288). As a number of studies have shown, (Helfers 1997;Maclaren: 2003: 264-65;McJannet 2011;Withers & Keighren 2011) editors have had significant and wide-ranging impact on travel writing over many centuries and across a range of forms. Blogs, by comparison, are a new phenomenon and there is clearly now a wide variety of contemporary publishing practice.…”

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From Richard Eden to Everything Everywhere: Discourses of travel writing from early modern editors to the contemporary travel blog

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Travel blogs have become an important new form of travel writing over the last decade with some achieving more than a million page views per month, and their authors becoming topranking social influencers. The ability to load material to web pages and reach readers directly suggests that editors are superfluous in this form of travel writing. However, as this article shows, not only do bloggers adopt many of the roles traditionally associated with editors, they use very similar discourses to the editors of some of the earliest collections of travel writing. This paper explores both the continuities and differences in these discourses showing both their indebtedness, whether conscious or not, to early editors and the ways in which these discourses have changed in contemporary times to reflect the modern world of travel writing.

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“…Typically, I considered the cross-cultural circulation of content -different versions of the Tamburlaine story, or Purchas's excisions of comic personal anecdotes from the travel narratives published in Purchas his Pilgrimes. 5 But I might have considered whether these exchanges also modified the form as well as the content of the works in question. In the case of the histories, including dialogue for the sultans was not itself a formal innovation since Holinshed and other 16th century historians included many set speeches for English and other historical figures in their accounts.…”

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Dialogue and Dialectic: A Response by Linda McJannet to Laura Doyle’s “Notes towards a Dialectical Method: Modernities, Modernisms, and the Crossings of Empire”

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Purchas His Pruning: Refashioning the Ottomans in Seventeenth-Century Travel Narratives

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‘Orientalismis a Partisan Book’: Applying Edward Said's Insights to Early Modern Travel Writing

‘Orientalismis a Partisan Book’: Applying Edward Said's Insights to Early Modern Travel Writing

From Richard Eden to Everything Everywhere: Discourses of travel writing from early modern editors to the contemporary travel blog

Dialogue and Dialectic: A Response by Linda McJannet to Laura Doyle’s “Notes towards a Dialectical Method: Modernities, Modernisms, and the Crossings of Empire”

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