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- Title
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Slavery in the Ottoman (and the British) Empire.
- Authors
Beach, Adam R.
- Abstract
The article presents an insight of the issue about the slavery in the Ottoman Empire by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The author argues that Montagu's text represents a feminist departure from previous male writings that are suffused with Orientalist tropes and lascivious assertions about the enslavement of Turkish women. It ads that Montagu constructs a scene in which the European aristocratic woman is momentarily rendered the slave, while object of her reflection, Turkish ladies of quality, are seen as completely unfettered.
- Subjects
SLAVERY; CRIMES against humanity; TURKISH language; FIGURES of speech; WOMEN in literature; FEMINISM; ARTISTIC creation; MONTAGU, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762; OTTOMAN Empire
- Publication
Philological Quarterly, 2006, Vol 85, Issue 3/4, p293
- ISSN
0031-7977
- Publication type
Article