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.
G. Stanivukovic
'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