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Ahmed, Leila.  "Western Ethnocentrism and Perceptions of the Harem."  Feminist Studies 8 (1982): 521-34.

Allen, M. D. “The New Path: English Women Travelers in the Middle East.” West Virginia University Philological Papers 40 (1994): 1-5.

Anon. [Robert Withers?] A Description of the Grand Signor's Seraglio, or Turkish Emperours Court.  London: Jo. Martin and Jo. Ridley, 1650.

Aravamudan, Srinivas. Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency. Raleigh: Duke UP, 1999.

Aubin, Penelope. The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil and his Family.  Ed. Paula Backscheider and John J. Richetti. In Popular Fiction by Women 1660-1730.  Oxford:  Oxford UP, 1996.

Backscheider, Paula and John J. Richetti, eds.  Popular Fiction by Women 1660-1730. Oxford:  Oxford UP, 1996.

Bohls, Elizabeth A. “Aesthetics and Orientalism in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Letters.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 23 (1994): 179-205. 

Caldwell, Tanya.  "Talking Too Much English: Languages of Economy and Politics in Equiano's The Interesting Narrative." Early American Literature 34 (1999): 263-283.

Colley, Linda.  Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1992.

Craven, Elizabeth. A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople.  1798; New York: Arno, 1970.

Daniel, Norman.  Islam and the West: The Making of an Image.  Edinburgh:  Edinburgh UP, 1962.

Davis, Fanny.  The Ottoman Lady.  New York:  Greenwood, 1986.

Du Mont, Sieur.  A New Voyage to the Levant.  London:  T.H., 1696.

Equiano, Olaudah. Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.  Ed. Vincent Carretta.  In Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the 18th Century.  Lexington:  University Press of Kentucky, 1996. 

Faroqhi, Suraiya.  Approaching Ottoman History: An Introduction to the Sources.  New York:  Cambridge UP, 1999.

Grundy, Isobel.  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.  Oxford:  Oxford UP, 1999.

Heffernan, Teresa. “Feminism Against the East/West Divide: Lady Mary’s Turkish Embassy Letters.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 33 (2000): 201-215.

Hill, Aaron. A Full and Just Account of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire. London: ,1709.

Islamoglu-Inan, Huri.  The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy.  Cambridge:  Cambridge UP, 1987.

Kahf, Mohja.  Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: From Termagant to Odalisque. Austin:  University of Texas, 1999.

Kinross, Patrick. The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire.  New York: Morrow, 1977.

Lowenthal, Cynthia.  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Familiar Letter.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.

Melman, Billie.  Women’s Orients: English Women and the Middle East, 1718-1918. Ann Arbor:  University of Michigan, 1992.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley.  The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.  Ed. Robert Halsband. Oxford:  Clarendon, 1965.

Nussbaum, Felicity.  Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins UP, 1995.

"Ottoman Empire." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2003.  Encyclopædia Britannica Online.
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Quataert, Donald. The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.

Rycaut, Paul.  The History of the present State of the Ottoman Empire. 4th ed. London: John Starkey and Henry Brome, 1675.

Scammel, G. V. The First Imperial Age.  London: Unwin Hyman, 1989.

Shaw, Ezel Kural and C. J. Heywood.  English and Continental Views of the Ottoman Empire, 1500-1800.  Los Angeles:  University of California, 1972.

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Tucker, Judith. In the house of the law : gender and Islamic law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1998.

Turner, Katherine S. H. “From Classical to Imperial: Changing Visions of Turkey in the Eighteenth Century.” In Travel Writing and Empire: Postcolonial Theory in Transit. Ed. Steve Clark.  London: Zed, 1999. 113-28.

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