Teresa Heffernan is Associate Professor of English
at St. Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Daniel O'Quinn is Professor of English and Theatre
Studies at the University of Guelph.
What a treat to see this indispensable and versatile text again
available, lovingly edited by Teresa Heffernan and Daniel O'Quinn.
They have followed the first edition, 1763 (illicitly published
after a secret all-night copying session), while correcting their
text from Montagu's own manuscript. Her idiosyncratic, open-minded,
proto-feminist responses to Islamic civilization are more
fascinating today than ever, and the context that the editors
supply for them is simply the best yet." - Isobel Grundy,
University of Alberta
"Montagu's famous Letter-book has at last received the attention it
has long deserved as an important piece of eighteenth-century
travel literature. The lively introduction constructs the
historical and literary context of the work, while an impressive
set of appendices illustrates not just her world, but also that of
her interlocutors and her contemporaries." - Virginia H. Aksan,
McMaster University
"In their superb Introduction to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's The
Turkish Embassy Letters, Teresa Heffernan and Daniel O'Quinn write
that "much like her letters, it is only more recently that her
strategic and intelligent engagement with Ottoman culture is being
mined." Their edition is a timely and compelling reminder of the
reasons why we should pay attention to the writing of this
remarkable woman. They have produced what will no doubt be the
definitive teaching edition for years to come." - Suvir Kaul,
University of Pennsylvania
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