Bibliographie
ABULAFIA David, The Great Sea. A Human History of the Mediterranean, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011.
ARAVAMUDAN Srinivas, Tropicopolitans. Colonialism and Agency 1688-1804, Durham, Duke University Press, 1999.
Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander, Trans. Aubrey De Selincourt, London, Penguin, 1971.
ATTRIDGE Derek, The Singularity of Literature, London and New York, Routledge, 2004.
AUGÉ Marc, Oblivion, Transl. Marjolijn de Jager, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
BALLASTER Ros, Fabulous Orients. Fictions of the East in England 1662–1785, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005.
BENEDICT Barbara, Curiosity. A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2001.
CASEY Edward S., Getting Back into Place. Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1993.
DERRIDA Jacques, Acts of Religion, New York, Routledge, 2002.
DERRIDA Jacques, Archive Fever. A Freudian Impression, Trans. Eric Frenowitz, Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 1995.
DERRIDA Jacques, Points : Interviews, 1974-1994, Trans. Peggy Kamuf et al. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 1995.
ECO Umberto and MIGIEL Marilyn, “An Ars Oblivionalis ? Forget It !.” PMLA, 103 : 3 (1988), pp. 254-261.
GRUNDY Isobel, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu : Comet of the Enlightenment, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999.
HEFFERNAN Teresa, “Feminism Against the East/West Divide : Lady Mary’s Turkish Embassy Letters”, Eighteenth-Century Studies 33.2 (2000), pp. 201-215.
HOMER, The Iiad, Trans. Robert Fagles, New York, Penguin Books, 1990.
LOWENTHAL Cynthia J., Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter, Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1994.
MONTAGU, Lady Mary Wortley, The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763), edited by Teresa Heffernan and Daniel O’Quinn, Toronto, Broadview Editions, 2013.
NAGY Gregory, Homer the Preclassic, Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2010.
OVID, Heroides, Trans. Harold Isbell, London, Penguin Books, 1990.
RICŒUR Paul, Memory, History, Forgetting, Transl. Kathleen Blarney and David Pellauer, Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2004.
VAN GENNEP Arnold, Rites of Passage (1908), Trans. Monika B. Vizedom and Gabrielle L. Caffee, London, Routledge, 2004.
WEINRICH Harald, Lethe : The Art and Critique of Forgetting, Transl. Steven Rendall, Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 2004.
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Notes
Augé, Oblivion, p. 17.
See, for instance, Grundy, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 89.
Derrida, Act sof Religion, p. 250.
Attridge sees singularity as heteropoiesis, the “creation of the other”, as the “wrest[ing] from the realm of the familiar the hitherto unthought,” in The Singularity of Literature, p. 64. Much like the Derridean “monstrous arrivant” that heralds the instantiation of innovative conception, in Derrida, Points :Interviews, pp. 386-387, the notion of singularity stands for the evental emergence of a creation that “introduc[es] otherness within the sphere of the same”, exploding stereotypes and fuelling the reconfiguration of the aesthetic-ideational frames necessary for its comprehension and accommodation within the cultural matrix, in Attridge, op. cit., p. 64.
Heffernan, “Feminism Against the East/West Divide,” pp. 201-215.
Aravamudan, Tropicopolitans, pp. 160-161.
Ballaster, Fabulous Orients, p. 179.
See Aravamudan, op. cit., p. 170.
VanGennep, Rites o fPassage, pp. 27-31.
Heffernan and O’Quinn, “Introduction,” in Montagu, The Turkish Embassy Letters, p. 15.
Heffernan and O’Quinn, op. cit., p. 15.
Like the medical practice of ingrafting as a prophylactic technique against smallpox, the sélam is an aesthetic technique Montagu trans-lated from the Oriental into the Occidental space.
Cf. Heffernan and O’Quinn, note 2, op. cit., p. 162.
Montagu, The Turkish Embassy Letters, p. 161.
Eco and Migiel, “An ArsOblivionalis?,” p. 256.
Montagu, op. cit., p. 163.
Cf. Weinrich, Lethe, p. 61.
According to Edward. S. Casey, emplacement or implacement emphasises the action of immersion into and the state of immanence in place, contingent on inhabitation, in Getting Back into Place, p. 315.
Montagu, op. cit., p. 163.
Ricoeur, Memory, p. xv.
Lowenthal, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, p. 82.
Cf. Heffernan and O’Quinn, “Introduction”, pp. 13, 16.
Montagu, op. cit., note 2, p. 180.
For a discussion of generic straitjacketing and Montagu’s preference for more loose-fitting dialogical “habits,” see Aravamudan, op. cit., p. 164.
Eco and Migiel, op. cit., pp. 257, 260.
Augé, Oblivion, p. 17.
Derrida, Archive Fever, p. 1.
Ibid., p. 2.
Ibid., p. 3.
Ibid., p. 91.
As duly noted by Isobel Grundy, who speaks of the “voyage home” as tantamount to seafaring “slowly, slowly – backwards in time, into Homer’s wine-dark sea,” in Grundy, op. cit., p. 168.
Sandys, Dumont, Hill, Rycaut, in Heffernan and O’Quinn, op. cit., p. 28.
In the letter she addressed to Alexander Pope from Adrianople on 1 April 1717, Lady Montagu expressed her “infinite pleasure” at having read his translation of the Homeric text, occasioning her a comparison between the customs of the ancient and the modern Greeks, including the surviving fashion of wearing the “snowy veil that Helen throws over her face,” Montagu, op. cit., pp. 119-120.
Derrida, Archive Fever, p. 22.
Montagu, op. cit., p. 185.
See Casey, Getting Back into Place, p. 297.
Cf. Casey, ibid., 306.
The Northern coast of Africa occasions the starkest contrasts between the majestic past and the distorted present, not only as regards the magnificent rulers that held dominion over it in history and the present-day “frightful” deformities her by-now Orientalising gaze detects among the country people, but also in terms of the landscape, once an isthmus, now an unappealing “marshy ground,” in Montagu, op. cit., pp. 191-194.
Note should be taken of the hyperbolic backdrop of this superlative description, which, in light of the writer’s experience of identitarian “Levantinisation” in Constantinople (cf. Aravamudan, op. cit., p. 19), could indicate, besides her genuine enthusiastic response, the excitement of the “back voyage,” at the prospect of treading the more familiar cultural-geographic ground of Hellenic antiquity, in Montagu, op. cit., p. 180.
Montagu, op. cit., p. 180.
“For here so oft the muse her harp has strung, / That not a mountain rears its head unsung,” cf. Montagu, op. cit., note 3, p. 180.
Ibid., p. 181.
Ibid., p. 181.
Ibid., p. 181.
Ibid., pp. 181-182.
See Abulafia, The Great Sea, pp. 135-136.
Montagu, op. cit., p. 182.
Ibid., p. 182.
Cf. Ovid, “Heroid XIX: Hero to Leander”, in Heroides, pp. 190-198.
Cf. Homer, “Book 14: Hera Outflanks Zeus”, in TheIiad, p. 375.
On Montagu’s transgression of conventional gender positions and adopting a penetrative, male gaze, see Aravamudan, op. cit., p. 175.
Montagu, op. cit., p. 182.
Ibid., p. 182.
Cf. Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander, p. 67.
See Nagy, Homer the Preclassic, p. 181.
In Ratisbon (Regensburg), for instance, Montagu mocks the collections of ossuaries and relics preserved in churches, including a “prodigious claw set in gold, which they called the claw of a griffin” and kept as a “curiosity”, Montagu, op. cit., p. 55; moreover, her much anthologised visit to the women’s hammam in Sofia (p. 103), when the English aristocrat unexpectedly finds herself gazed at and objectified by the bathing women, is a demonstration of what Barbara Benedict has shown to be the fluid boundaries between “curiousness” and “curiosity” in the early modern period, in Curiosity, p. 2.
See, for instance, her glib contemptuousness of the composite collections amassed in the emperor’s Treasure in Vienna, Montagu, op. cit., p. 71.
In Constantinople, she follows this antiquarian impulse, gathering Greek medals and even commissioning a mummy, in ibid., p. 145.
As Heffernan and O’Quinn assure us (note 2), this funereal monument or trapeza eventually made its way into the British Museum, in 1816, in Montagu, op. cit., p. 183.
Ibid., p. 184.
Ibid., p. 70.
See, for instance, the reference to Lady Mary’s “distillations” from Georges Sandys’s A Relation of a Journey Begun An: Dom: 1610 (1615) in Heffernan and O’Quinn (note 3), in Montagu, op. cit., p. 187.
Ibid., p. 184.
Cf. Heffernan and O’Quinn, note 1, ibid., p. 185.
“I think Strabo says the same thing”, ibid., p. 185.
Ibid., p. 186.
Ibid., p. 186.
Ibid., p. 187.
Ibid., p. 188.
Ibid , p. 188.
Ibid., p. 188.
Ibid., p. 188.
Weinrich, op. cit., p. 2.
See Weinrich, ibid., p. 1.
Ibid., p. 2.
Casey, op. cit., p. 289.
Ibid., p. 290.
Ibid.,pp. 290-291.
Cf. Casey, ibid., pp. 292, 296.
Lady Montagu’s nautical peregrination ends in Genoa, an experience recounted in the next letter, addressed to Lady Mar, on 28 August 1718, in which emphasis is laid on the Genoese colonial foothold in the Mediterranean throughout history, in Montagu, op. cit., pp. 194-198.
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