Istanbul and the Ottoman empire in Romantic and Victorian culture : the sultan's city, 1800-1876 /

From Romantic Byzantium to operatic sultans and vampiric janissaries, the arc of this book takes on a fascinating but often overlooked area of 19th century studies, the encounter with Constantinople/Istanbul, "the diamond between two sapphires" on the Bosphorus and the effect of the city&#...

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