Ottomania : the Romantics and the myth of the Islamic Orient / Roderick Cavaliero.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-239) and index.

The empire of Osman: the Turkish myth -- The sultan in his seraglio: the myth of the despot -- The harem: the myth of sex -- Exotic and erotic: the myth of the Arabian nights -- Peri and prisoner: they myth of the bango -- Virgins soft as roses: the myth of Lord Byron -- Ghastly as a tyrant's dream: they myth of resurgent Greece -- Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair: the myth of Egypt -- Forty centuries look down on your: the myth of Bonaparte -- Barbering and shaving: the myth of Persia -- Lalla Rookh and the lyre of the Oriental minstrel: the myth of the romantic dream -- Scott and the quest for chivalry: the myth of the Crusades -- Tancred and Eva: the myth of religious unity -- Isabella, Hester and Jane: the myth of the amiable Turk -- Playing on dulcimers: the myth of nostalgia.