"This book arises from papers presented at the symposium Ottoman Istanbul and British Orientalism held at Suna and İnan Kiraç Foundation, Pera Museum, between 27-28 November 2008" --On t. p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The An The The The Mary Roberts -- Christine Riding -- Reina Lewis -- Nicholas Tromans -- Sarah Searight -- Donald Preziosi -- Nancy Micklewright -- Wendy M.K. Shaw -- Mary Roberts -- Ahmet Ersoy -- Teresa Heffernan -- Briony Llewellyn -- Edhern Eldern -- Zeynep Inankur - Aykut Gürçağlar -- Günsel Renda -- Semra Germaner -- Tim Barringer -- Peter Benson Miller Introduction : disruptive geographies / Staging The lure of the East : exhibition making and orientalism / Cultural exchange and the politics of pleasure / Bringing it home? : orientalist painting and the art market / Searight Collection / Cultural consignment and cultural (ex)change / Orientalism and photography / Betweent the subline and the picturesque / Genealogies of display : cross-cultural networks at the 1880's Istanbul exhibitions / Osman Hamdi Bey and the historiophile mood : orientalist vision and the romantic sense of the past in late Ottoman culture / Traveling east : veiling, race and nations / "Solitary Eagle"? : the public and private personas of John Frederick Lewis (1804-1876) / Ottoman traveler to the Orient : Osman Hamdi Bey / Mary Adelaide Walker / Dragoman who commissioned his own portrait / European artists at the Ottoman court : propagating a new dynastic image in the nineteenth century / interpretation of pictoral space in nineteenth-centruy Ottoman landscape painting / Orientalism and aestheticism / reception of John Frederick Lewis at the Exposition universelle in 1855 /