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Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire in Romantic and Victorian Culture

Piya Pal-Lapinski
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aesthetics and geopolitics of the Ottoman empire
art
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Benjamin Disraeli
Byron
Byzantine
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Constantinople
cosmopolitanism
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geopolitics
imperial
Islamic empire
Istanbul and Nineteenth-Century British literature and culture
Istanbul and Romanticism
Julia Pardoe
Lord Byron
Mary Shelley
material culture
nationalism and cosmopolitanism
Ottoman empire in the Romantic period
Romantic and Victorian Cultural studies
Turkey
Turkey-in Europe
Walter Scott

Product details

  • ISBN 9781350398641
  • Weight: 600g
  • Dimensions: 164 x 238mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Jul 2025
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Piya Pal-Lapinski explores the transformation of the Ottoman empire (and its Byzantine ghosts) during the period 1800-1876 in terms of its crucial impact on British and European transnational identities.
From Romantic Byzantium to operatic sultans and vampiric janissaries, the arc of this book takes on a fascinating but often overlooked area of 19th century literary studies – the encounter with Constantinople/Istanbul, “the diamond between two sapphires” on the Bosphorus and the effect of the city’s complicated history on Romantic /Victorian writers and artists.

Drawing on unpublished, archival material on Thomas Hope and Julia Pardoe, she provides fresh readings of these writers as well as Byron, Disraeli, Scott and Mary Shelley, among others. Taking up the problems posed by the existence of a global, cosmopolitan empire with its center in Istanbul and control over borderlands known as “Turkey- in -Europe,” the book examines these issues against the background of the rise of nationalist movements and ethnic affiliations in the 19th century. Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire in Romantic and Victorian Culture proposes a new approach to understanding the final century of a significant non-Western, Islamic empire.
About Piya Pal-Lapinski
Piya Pal-Lapinski is Associate Professor of English at Bowling Green State University, USA. She is the author of The Exotic Woman in Nineteenth Century British Fiction and Culture (2004) and co-editor of Byron and the Politics of Freedom and Terror (2011). Her research focuses on the interdisciplinary and global contexts of nineteenth century literature and its intersections with contemporary theory.

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