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Editors’ Choice: Mapping Eighteenth-Century British Travel Writing on the Orient

Scholars have provided various perspectives on how Europe historically perceived the Orient, such as Said (1978) with his ground-breaking work Orientalism, as well as Ballaster (2005) and Osterhammel (2018). Moreover, despite this enormous literature on Orientalism, most studies remain limited to specific, well-known texts such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (Baktır 2014; Lowe 1991). Additionally, […]