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The Turkish Embassy Letters - Couverture souple

Montagu, Mary Wortley

 
9781853816796: The Turkish Embassy Letters
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1853816795 ISBN 13 : 9781853816796
Editeur : Virago, 1994

Synopsis

The critical and biographical introduction tells of Lady Wortley Montagu's travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her lively letters offer insights into the paradoxical freedoms conferred on Muslim women by the veil, the value of experimental work by Turkish doctors on inoculation, and the beauty of Arab poetry and culture.

The ability to study another culture according to its own values and to see herself through the eyes of others makes Lady Mary one of the most fascinating of early travel writers and commentators

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À propos de l'auteur

In 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's husband Edward Montagu was appointed British ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire. Montagu accompanied her husband to Turkey and wrote an extraordinary series of letters that recorded her experiences as a traveller and her impressions of Ottoman culture and society. Her connections with poets such as Pope, Congreve and Addison and with Whig politicians through her father and husband provide a fascinating base for the correspondence.

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Éditeur
Virago
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1853816795
ISBN 13 
9781853816796
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
238
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Hachette Ireland
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