Roxolana in European Literature, History and CultureGalina I. Yermolenko This collection is the first book-length scholarly study of the pervasiveness and significance of Roxolana in the European imagination. Roxolana, or "Hurrem Sultan," was a sixteenth-century Ukrainian woman who made an unprecedented career from harem slave and concubine to legal wife and advisor of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566). Her influence on Ottoman affairs generated legends in many a European country. The essays gathered here represent an interdisciplinary survey of her legacy; the contributors view Roxolana as a transnational figure that reflected the shifting European attitudes towards "the Other," and they investigate her image in a wide variety of sources, ranging from early modern historical chronicles, dramas and travel writings, to twentieth-century historical novels and plays. Also included are six European source texts featuring Roxolana, here translated into modern English for the first time. Importantly, this collection examines Roxolana from both Western and Eastern European perspectives; source material is taken from England, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Poland, and Ukraine. The volume is an important contribution to the study of early modern transnationalism, cross-cultural exchange, and notions of identity, the Self, and the Other. |
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... century French school. Bibliotheque de la Comédie Française, paris, France. Courtesy of Bridgeman art library. Roksolana; anonymous ukrainian artist; oil on canvas; late eighteenth-early nineteenth century. By permission of national ...
... century French school. Bibliotheque de la Comédie Française, paris, France. Courtesy of Bridgeman art library. Roksolana; anonymous ukrainian artist; oil on canvas; late eighteenth-early nineteenth century. By permission of national ...
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... Century Culture, Lessing Yearbook, Monatshefte, German Quarterly, and recent book chapters, in Visual Culture (Heidelberg, 2008); The Enlightened Eye: Goethe and Visual Culture (Rodopi, 2007); Literary Encyclopedia (http://www.litEncyc ...
... Century Culture, Lessing Yearbook, Monatshefte, German Quarterly, and recent book chapters, in Visual Culture (Heidelberg, 2008); The Enlightened Eye: Goethe and Visual Culture (Rodopi, 2007); Literary Encyclopedia (http://www.litEncyc ...
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... century England. in addition to several book articles, she published essays in journals such as Women's History Magazine, English, Papers on Language and Literature, Critical Survey, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research ...
... century England. in addition to several book articles, she published essays in journals such as Women's History Magazine, English, Papers on Language and Literature, Critical Survey, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research ...
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... centuries, and they occur in the various historical and literary texts discussed in this volume. the general “name” policy for this volume is to retain the versions and spellings used in the original texts, providing, in parentheses ...
... centuries, and they occur in the various historical and literary texts discussed in this volume. the general “name” policy for this volume is to retain the versions and spellings used in the original texts, providing, in parentheses ...
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... centuries, it is often overlooked that she was largely a creation of the European imagination. due to the lack of ... century to the present. Contributions to this collection examine cultural responses to Roxolana in both Western and ...
... centuries, it is often overlooked that she was largely a creation of the European imagination. due to the lack of ... century to the present. Contributions to this collection examine cultural responses to Roxolana in both Western and ...
Contents
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Part 2 Translations | 165 |
Appendix 1 Plot Summaries | 255 |
Appendix 2 Names | 271 |
Appendix 3 Chronology | 275 |
Bibliography | 277 |
Index | 301 |
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