turkish embassy letters lady mary montagu

In 1716, she accompanied her husband to Vienna, and thence to Adrianople (Edirne) and Constantinople, where he took up his post as the new British ambassador. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont) was an English aristocrat and woman of letters. I conclude that though class has been relatively neglected in recent readings of travel narratives, class-based discourses play an important role in the construction of difference and should be accorded greater attention in the literature.Download cover art Download CD case insert The Turkish Embassy Letters (selection) I argue that Montagu’s travel narrative reproduces dominant discourses which naturalize class relations of her times, even and especially in moments when gendered or Orientalist expectations are subverted. The reading of the Letters presented in this paper situates Montagu’s text, including her famous claim that Turkish women have more liberty than British women, within the material and discursive context of eighteenth-century England and the geopolitical relations of the day. During their sojourn, Montagu composed what would become her most famous writings: the collection of edited letters which constitute the Turkish Embassy Letters.

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