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Introduction to the course
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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.
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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.
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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A Monthly Review LVII (January-June 1905), 307-323 • Extracts from Wilfred Scawen Blunt’s Secret Memoirs Vol. 17 (unpublished) Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 34-1975
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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.
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Midterm- No Classes
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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.
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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)
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Spring Break- No Classes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Research Presentations