Ethnomasquerade in Ottoman-European encounters: reenacting Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

Criticism | June 22, 2004| | Copyright

THE YEAR 1718 MARKS a significant point in the history of the Ottoman Empire, demarcating the first spate of Westernization reforms--the so-called Tulip Period (1718-1730)--which sought to strengthen the Ottoman Empire after its defeat in Vienna at the end of the seventeenth century. In 1718, Ottoman-European encounters were cast in a new light from a European woman's point of view: this was the year Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and her husband, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, resided in Istanbul.

Montagu's journey constitutes the beginning of women's ...

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