Boys Abducted - The Homoerotics of Empire and Race in Early Modernity

Exploring the history of abducted boys in English and Ottoman literary and visual culture, Arvas offers a queer-historicist analysis of a wide array of Ottoman and English texts and genres ranging from poetry, drama, and travelogue to chronicles, maps, and visual arts to examine the relationships between homoeroticism, race, and empire in the early modern period.