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Reading the Ottoman Empire : intertextuality and experience in Henry Blount’s Voyage into the Levant (1636)

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Din-Kariuki, Natalya (2022) Reading the Ottoman Empire : intertextuality and experience in Henry Blount’s Voyage into the Levant (1636). Review of English Studies . hgac062. doi:10.1093/res/hgac062 ISSN 0034-6551. [ 🗎 Public]. [ (✓) hoa:511 ] (In Press)

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Abstract

The English traveller Henry Blount (1602-1682), author of A Voyage into the Levant (1636), is renowned for attempting to view the Ottoman Empire with an open mind and to understand it on its own terms. Scholars of the Voyage have examined Blount’s attitude to cultural difference, as well as his relationship to emerging discourses of empiricism, especially the works of Francis Bacon. This essay argues that the cultural politics and philosophical outlook of the Voyage are fundamentally connected to, and, in some cases, problematised by, Blount’s intertextual strategies. It shows that Blount’s digestion of his reading shapes his theoretical approach to travel, including his understanding of perception, cognition, and experience, and is central to his description of the Ottoman Empire. As well as identifying Blount’s borrowings from and paraphrases of writings by Bacon, Michel de Montaigne, George Sandys, and, indirectly, Aristotle, my argument demonstrates that early modern travel writing offers an especially striking example of the parallels between observation and reading that characterise the writings of the period more generally.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: D History General and Old World > D History (General)
D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D901 Europe (General)
D History General and Old World > DS Asia
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800, Cultural relations, Empiricism, Turkey -- Description and travel, Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Journal or Publication Title: Review of English Studies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISSN: 0034-6551
Official Date: 2022
Dates:
DateEvent
2022Published
24 September 2022Available
11 September 2022Accepted
Number of Pages: 17
Article Number: hgac062
DOI: 10.1093/res/hgac062
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: In Press
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit: 12 September 2022
Date of first compliant Open Access: 4 October 2022

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