The Turkish Embassy Letters: Introduction by Anita Desai (Virago Modern Classics) - Softcover

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

 
9781853816796: The Turkish Embassy Letters: Introduction by Anita Desai (Virago Modern Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1853816795 ISBN 13: 9781853816796
Verlag: Virago, 1994

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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 and to see herself through the eyes of others makes Lady Mary one of the most fascinating of early travel writers and commentators

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In 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's husband Edward Montagu was appointed British ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire. Montagu accompanied her husband to Turkey and wrote an extraordinary series of letters that recorded her experiences as a traveller and her impressions of Ottoman culture and society. Her connections with poets such as Pope, Congreve and Addison and with Whig politicians through her father and husband provide a fascinating base for the correspondence.

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Verlag
Virago
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1853816795
ISBN 13 
9781853816796
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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