Intimate outsiders : the harem in Ottoman and Orientalist art and travel literature

Author

Roberts, Mary, 1965-

Title

Intimate outsiders : the harem in Ottoman and Orientalist art and travel literature / Mary Roberts.

Format

Book

Published

Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

Description

xiv, 195 p., 32 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

URL

<Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0718/2007021173.html

Portion of title

Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist art and travel literature

Series

Objects/histories

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-185) and index.

Contents

• 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

Harem.
Social customs--Turkey.
Art--Turkey--19th century.
Women--Turkey--19th century.
Women--Egypt--Cairo--19th century.
Social conditions--Turkey--19th century.

Subject headings

Turkey--Relations--England.
England--Relations--Turkey.

ISBN

9780822339564 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822339560 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822339670 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822339676 (pbk. : alk. paper)