List of Illustrations * Preface * Introduction: Islam, the Ottomans and Early Modern England * PART 1: BEGINNINGS * The English Encounter the Ottoman World * The English Abroad: Travellers, Traders, Captives and Colonists in the Ottoman Mediterranean * Performing East and Captive Agency * PART 2: WRITING THE OTTOMAN WORLD On Turning Turk, or Trying to: National Identity in Robert Daborne'sA Christian Turn'd Turke* The Sultans Beasts: Encountering Ottoman Fauna * The Making of the British Imperial Subject * PART 3: SOME LITERARY IMPACTS * Learn of a Turk: Restoration Culture and the Ottoman Empire * A View from the West: Young American Writing about the Maghrib * A View from the East: Don Juan in England List of Illustrations * Preface * Introduction: Islam, the Ottomans and Early Modern England * PART 1: BEGINNINGS * The English Encounter the Ottoman World * The English Abroad: Travellers, Traders, Captives and Colonists in the Ottoman Mediterranean * Performing East and Captive Agency * PART 2: WRITING THE OTTOMAN WORLD On Turning Turk, or Trying to: National Identity in Robert Daborne'sA Christian Turn'd Turke* The Sultans Beasts: Encountering Ottoman Fauna * The Making of the British Imperial Subject * PART 3: SOME LITERARY IMPACTS * Learn of a Turk: Restoration Culture and the Ottoman Empire * A View from the West: Young American Writing about the Maghrib * A View from the East: Don Juan in England.