Intimate Outsiders: The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature by Mary Roberts

Intimate Outsiders: The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature

Mary Roberts

195 pages first pub 2007 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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Until now, the notion of a cross-cultural dialogue has not figured in the analysis of harem paintings, largely because the Western fantasy of the harem has been seen as the archetype for Western appropriation of the Orient. In Intimate Outsiders, ...

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