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ELIT 419

Turkish Travels

Four centuries of English-language travelers — Montagu, Byron, Twain, Macaulay, Stark — wrote the Ottoman world and Turkey into being for Western readers, and this elective treats their books as both literature and evidence of how the "East" gets imagined. You'll read primary travel narratives alongside critical frameworks like Said's Orientalism and Bhabha's third space, working through themes such as the Grand Tour, women travelers and gendered observation, the picturesque, and the slippery line between fact and fiction. Expect close reading, contextual essays, and oral discussion; the payoff is a sharper toolkit for any later course in postcolonial theory, cultural studies, or nineteenth-century literature.

Credit3ECTS5FacultyFaculty of Humanities and LettersBölümEnglish Language and Literature

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Towers of Trebizond
Rose Macaulay
2012 (1956) · Farrar
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Course reading pack
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Haftalık müfredat 14 hafta

Hafta 1
Introduction to the course
Hafta 2
Orientalism as Method • Edward Said. Orientalism. New York: Vintage Books, 1979. • Shehla Burney. “Orientalism: The Making of the Other”. Counterpoints: Pedagogy of the Other: Edward Said, Postcolonial Theory, and Strategies for Critique 417 (2012), 23-39.
Hafta 3
The Eastern Question • Stratford Cumming. The Eastern Question. London: John Murray, 1881. • Karl Marx. The Eastern Question, A Reprint Of Letters Written 1853-1856 Dealing With The Events Of The Crimean War. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1897. • David Urquhart. The Spirit of the East, Illustrated in a Journal of Travels through Roumelia during an Eventful Period. London: Henry Colburn, 1838.
Hafta 4
Encounters in the Third Space • Homi K. Bhabha. Locations of Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 1994 • Violet Fane. “Transplanted Snowdrop”. Betwixt Two Seas. London: John C. Nimmo, 1900. • Lady Mary M. Currie. “From the Toll-bar Of the Galata Tower”. Nineteenth Century: A Monthly Review LVII (January-June 1905), 307-323 • Extracts from Wilfred Scawen Blunt’s Secret Memoirs Vol. 17 (unpublished) Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 34-1975
Hafta 5
The "Ottoman Character" • Alexander Kinglake. Eothen. London: Methuen& Co., 1844. • Sinan Kuneralp ed. Twix Pera and Therapia: The Constantinople Diaries of Lady Layard. Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2010. • Julia Pardoe, The City of the Sultan and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836. London: Henry Colburn, 1837. • Selection of periodical articles written by women.
Hafta 6
Midterm- No Classes
Hafta 7
Women Travellers • Tomoe Kumojima. Victorian Women’s Travel Writing on Meiji Japan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. • Katie Hickman. Daughter’s of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives. London: Flamingo- HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. • Elizabeth Craven. A Journey Through the Crimea to Constantinople (1789) • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The Turkish Embassy Letters ed. Teresa Heffernan and Daniel O’Quinn. London: Broadview Press, 2013. • Julia Pardoe, The City of the Sultan and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836. London: Henry Colburn, 1837. • Mrs. Harvey of Ickwell Bury. Turkish Harems & Circassian Homes. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1871. • Lady Dufferin. My Russian and Turkish Journals. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1916.
Hafta 8
Greece, Lord Byron, and Orientalism • William Eleroy Curtis. The Turk and His Lost Provinces: Greece, Bulgaria, Servia, Bosnia. Chicago: New York: Toronto: London: Edinburgh: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1903. • Peter Cochran. Byron and Orientalism. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006. • Lord Byron. The Giaour (1813); Don Juan Canto V (1821) • Joseph Allen Boon. The Homoerotics of Orientalism. New York: Colombia University Press, 2014. • Selection of periodical articles on the Greek War of Independence (1821)
Hafta 9
Spring Break- No Classes
Hafta 10
Missionary Narratives • Michelle Tusan. Smyrna’s Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide and the Birth of the Middle East. Berkley: Los Angeles: London: University of California Press, 2012. • Selection of missionary narratives from assorted British press.
Hafta 11
Tanzimat and Modernisation • David Urquhart. Turkey and Its Resources. London: Saunders and Outley, 1833. • Robert Walsh. A Residence at Constantinople. London: Fredrick Wesley and A. H. Davis, 1836. • Charles White. Three Years in Constantinople. London: Henry Colburn Publisher, 1845.
Hafta 12
The Non-Muslim Minorities • William Eleroy Curtis. The Turk and His Lost Provinces: Greece, Bulgaria, Servia, Bosnia. Chicago: New York: Toronto: London: Edinburgh: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1903. • Selection of witness accounts of the Bulgarian atrocities.
Hafta 13
The Non-Muslim Minorities II • Violet Fane. Betwixt Two Seas. London: John C. Nimmo, 1900. • William Watson. Purple East: A Series of Sonnets on England’s Desertion of Armenia. London: John Lane, 1896. • Elizabeth Horne Smith. ‘The Armenian Atrocities’. Working-Class Women Poets in Victorian Britain: An • Anthology ed. Florence S. Boos. Peterborough: Ontario: Buffalo: Plymouth: Sydney: Broadview Press, 2008, 159-160. • Alice Stone Blackwell. Armenian Poems: Rendered into English Verse. Boston: Atlantic Printing Company, 1917.
Hafta 14
Research Presentations

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