Engaging the Ottoman empire: vexed mediations, 1690-1815

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Machine generated contents note: pt. I AFTER PEACE -- ch. 1 Theatrum Pads: Mediating the Treaty of Karlowitz -- ch. 2 A Costume Empire: Describing the Social Matrix -- ch. 3 At the Limits of Verisimilitude: Vanmour's Allegories of Social Cohesion -- ch. 4 Critical Alignments: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Classical Counter-Memory -- pt. II BESIDE WAR -- ch. 5 "As Are Yet to Be Seen": The Dilettanti's Re-enchantment of the Ionian World -- ch. 6 Exoriare Aliquis: Choiseul-Gouffier's Needs and Lady Craven's Desires -- ch. 7 Narrative Fragments and Object Choices: Antiquities, War, and the Vestiges of Love -- ch. 8 Critical Disjunctions: The Intersection of Form, Affect, and Empire in Melling and Byron.