Intimate Outsiders : The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature.

Roberts, Mary.
Intimate Outsiders :
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9780822390459 (electronic bk.)
9780822339564
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/0520
Yayın Bilgisi
©2007.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource (243 pages)
Dizi
Objects/Histories Ser.
İçindekiler Notu
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Intimate Outsiders -- Part 1: John Frederick Harem Paintings -- Chapter One. The Languid Lotus-Eater -- Chapter Two. “Mr Lewis's Oriental Paradises“ -- Part 2: British Women's Travelogues -- Chapter Three. Pleasures in Detail -- Chapter Four. Being Seen -- Chapter Five. Sartorial Adventures and Satiric Narratives -- Part 3: Harem Portraiture -- Chapter Six. The Politics of Portraiture behind the Veil -- Chapter Seven. Oriental Dreams -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Özet, vb.
Comparative study of 19th-century representations of Ottoman harems that considers both the tradition of British paintings and writings about harems as well as the perspectives of Ottoman women who commissioned their own harem portraits.
Konu
Women - Turkey - Social conditions - 19th century.
Electronic books.