Because novels reflect history as well as art, this work seeks to identify the historical origins of gender bias—the categories of Male Law and Female Sacrifice—as they are characterized in Defoe's Roxana (1724), Richardson's Clarissa (1747), and Walpole's The Castle of Otranto …
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Mme. de Pompadour was presented as mistress to Louis XV in 1745 and remained at the Court of Versailles until 1764. France faced monumental challenges at this time. The Wars of the Austrian Succession from 1740 to 1748 and the Seven Years' War in 1756 to 1763 crippled France mil…
The dynamics of Ottoman administration in eighteenth-century Bosnia, as seen through the provincial governor's office, demonstrate that the populace and the state's representatives cooperated to realize societal needs. Proof of this assertion at a general level comes from asking…
The travel narratives of Daniel Defoe are filled with images of heroic English travelers and the natives they encounter. I argue that those natives are portrayed in the texts in terms of the relationship between their agency (as either potential aid or hindrance) and the travele…
After Russia's annexation in the 1550's of the Western Eurasian Khanates of Kazan and Astrakhan and its occupation of the Volga-Ural region, large groups of Turkic-speaking Muslims found themselves subjects of a powerful European and Christian state. These Muslim communities rem…
This dissertation studies specific features of the Ottoman administration of justice in Anatolia during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In particular, it examines the functions and responsibilities of Islamic courts within the framework of the Ottoman provin…
The idea of culture came into circulation in the European vernacular languages simultaneously around 1780. A dynamic concept implying development and change, culture described the origin and progress of civil society from the primitive state of nature to modern Enlightenment. In…
This thesis explores middling reform-minded representations of plebeian children’s material worlds in England from 1720 to 1780. Specifically, it examines depictions of chattel and place in imagery of children, to convey messages aligned with the reform initiatives of the eighte…
This dissertation examines the structural and literary devices women travel and travel-adventure writers at the beginning of the eighteenth century developed to reflect woman's search for personal identity. Penelope Aubin and Eliza Haywood adopted and adapted the genre form of t…
This study, which examines the French experience of captivity in the Barbary States of Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli and Morocco, considers both the mechanics and perceptions of an often forgotten phenomenon that pitted Crescent against Cross and implicated tens of thousands of subjec…
During the eighteenth century, a number of novels entered the literary marketplace featuring an Oriental traveler who wrote letters recording his observations of the West. In fact, these novels were written by Europeans who sought to satirize their cultures through the comments …
This thesis is a historical study of a commercial partnership between two families of Sephardic Jews, the Ergas and the Silvera, which was based in Livorno (Tuscany) and Aleppo (Syria) and operated during the first half of the eighteenth century, when Livorno was the most import…
This dissertation explores the roots of modern Arab history from the perspective of indigenous sources of change. Orientalist and Arab nationalist historians once saw the 18th century as a period of cultural stagnation, civil strife, and economic decline. These assumptions have …
Exoticism underwent significant transformation during the eighteenth century. This dissertation traces and defines this transformation through a series of studies of turquerie, exoticism's predominant visual form in eighteenth-century France. Stepping away from established modes…
This dissertation delineates two new political and cultural visions that emerged in Central Asia in the eighteenth century. These visions shaped Central Asia's political and cultural boundaries and its perception of self-image, and became the mode of cultural discourse in that p…
This study examines the contents and the role of the Restoration and eighteenth-century serious dramas that stage the Orient, namely the Muslim Orient. Critics have analyzed the rise and the role of these dramas differently. For instance, Edward Said in Orientalism views Orienta…
This dissertation deals with the corpus of icons painted by Serbian artists between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries, after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Turks in 1453. The icons were housed in Serbian Orthodox churches in Bosnia-Herzegovina at th…
Taking sterotypical notions of the Orient (here understood as the Arab/Islamic world) as departure point, this dissertation examines the question of change in the context of cross-cultural representations. The dissertation focuses in particular on French cultural representations…
So far, the topic of Moroccan-Ottoman relations from the 16th through the 18th centuries has received only superficial attention in both Moroccan and Ottoman historiographies. The general assumption was that since Morocco was not an Ottoman province, relations between Morocco an…