Description
Central to the nineteenth-century Ottoman Tanzimat reform project, the novel originally developed outside of Ottoman space, yet was adopted as a didactic tool to model and generate new forms of Ottoman citizenship. Essays in this book explore the appropriation of the novel as a literary genre and its deployment in the late Ottoman cultural project of constructing an Ottoman modernity.
Analyzing key texts and authors, from the works of Ahmet Midhat Efendi to Mizanci Murad and Vartan Pasha, among others, the book's chapters explore the novel genre as far more than a case of importation of Western and non-Ottoman cultural productions, but rather as a vehicle for the cultivation of indigenous modern subjectivities.
A study of the relationship between novels and the modernizing Tanzimat period of the Ottoman Empire
About the Author
Monica M. Ringer is Professor of History and Asian Languages and Civilisations at Amherst College, USA.
Etienne E. Charriere is Assistant Professor in the Department of Turkish Literature at Bilkent University, Turkey.
Reviews
'Ottoman Culture and the Project of Modernity is a successfully conceived volume on the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire and its complex modernization efforts, highlighting the significance of local elements in the nineteenth-century transformations, showing that modernity did not always mean "western."' * Emine Evered, Associate Professor, Michigan State University, USA *
Book Information
ISBN 9780755646241
Author Prof. Monica M. Ringer
Format Paperback
Page Count 232
Imprint I.B. Tauris
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 331g
