Intimate outsiders : the harem in Ottoman and Orientalist art and travel literature
- Author
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Roberts, Mary, 1965-
- Title
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Intimate outsiders : the harem in Ottoman and Orientalist art and travel literature / Mary Roberts.
- Format
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Book
- Published
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Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Description
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xiv, 195 p., 32 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
- URL
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<Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0718/2007021173.html
- Portion of title
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Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist art and travel literature
- Series
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Objects/histories
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-185) and index.
- Contents
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- pt. 1. John Frederick Lewis's Harem paintings.
- The languid lotus-eater
- "Mr. Lewis's oriental paradises"
- pt. 2. British women's travelogues.
- Pleasures in detail
- Being seen
- Sartorial adventures and satiric narratives
- pt. 3. Harem portraiture.
- The politics of portraiture behind the veil
- Oriental dreams.
- Kinsey subjects
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Harem.
Social customs--Turkey.
Art--Turkey--19th century.
Women--Turkey--19th century.
Women--Egypt--Cairo--19th century.
Social conditions--Turkey--19th century.
- Subject headings
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Turkey--Relations--England.
England--Relations--Turkey.
- ISBN
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9780822339564 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822339560 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822339670 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822339676 (pbk. : alk. paper)