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This volume brings together twenty-two authors from various countries who analyze travelogues on the Ottoman Empire between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. The travelogues reflect the colorful diversity of the genre, presenting the experiences of individuals and groups from China to Great Britain. The spotlight falls on interdependencies of travel writing and historiography, geographic spaces, and specific practices such as pilgrimages, the hajj, and the harem. Other points of emphasis include the importance of nationalism, the place and time of printing, representations of fashion, and concepts of masculinity and femininity. By displaying close, comparative, and distant readings, the volume offers new insights into perceptions of "otherness", the circulation of knowledge, intermedial relations, gender roles, and digital analysis.
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Travel reports have shaped the emergence of early U.S. culture and its "geographical imagination" (David Harvey). Framing the Nation, Claiming the Hemisphere examines the trans-national imagination in travel reports by American authors written between 1770 and 1830. Its range is from John and William Bartram's pre-revolutionary travelogues and Jonathan Carver's exploratory report on his journey in the Great Lakes region (1778), to Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative (1789), to early nineteenth-century reports, such as Anne Newport Royall's Sketches of History, Life, and Manners, in the United States (1826) and William Duane's A Visit to Colombia (1826). The chapters of the monograph concentrate on writing about journeys to the North American 'interior', the Caribbean, Latin America, and Africa. The primary sources were written between the beginning of the struggle against British rule, following the end of the French and Indian War, and the beginning of Andrew Jackson's presidency. The decades between 1770 and 1830 were times of shifting colonial boundaries, nation-building, and emergent discourses of collective identification in North America. The study reads travel writing in the context of the identity-generating discourses of nation-building, imperialism, anti-colonialism, and cosmopolitanism. In contrast to scholarship that engages a notion of Americanness based primarily on 'domestic' outlooks and experiences such as westward expansion (the frontier), the study highlights the function of categories such as the outside world, neighboring nations, and colonial empires in the emergence of U.S. national literary imagination. How does a shift in focus from a discursive 'domestication' of North American space to an interest in the Othering of what lies beyond national borders affect the understanding of the emergent national self? These are the kind of questions that begin by seeing the transnational as a fundamental element of national emergence. The monograph ultimately works to demonstrate how travel writing - with very few exceptions - supports and affirms processes of nation-building. Thus, the national narrative evolves from representations of contact scenarios in North America, in the transatlantic world, and around the globe. Without ignoring the roles of national mythology, the analysis concentrates on the continual co-existence of fluid notions of both 'home' and 'abroad' in times of shifting geographical borders. From such a perspective, travel writing not only contributes to shaping the national imagination and its conceptions of superiority but is also complicit in territorial expansionism and its subjugation of conquered peoples and their respective cultural histories. The present study emphasizes the significance of accounts of non-voluntary movement that embrace captivity narratives, slave narratives, sailor narratives, and reports by individuals who had access to neither publishing nor public culture. Accounts by such authors have often been published posthumously, promoted by printers, professional authors, or scholars. The central focus of analysis, however, examines how American self-fashioning and self-positioning in the world appear in the travel writing of the period. The trans-national imagination engages in a symbolic construction both of the collective national 'Self' and of the outside world as the nation's 'Other.' Travel writing functions as a tool in the nation-building process of the United States: a tool that reflects the mindset of the time, a tool that imagines a national community, and a tool that shapes the mindset of a people. The study maintains that travel writing, as a literary format, negotiates the triangular relationship between American post-revolutionary nation-building, continued European colonial expansion in the Americas, and the ongoing existence of indigenous nations. Underlying each of the readings is a common thesis that travel writing defines and negotiates borders, limits, and territorial expansion, and that it does so within the parameters of nation-building.
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1860–2020 invites readers to explore Mongolia as an important cultural space for Western travelers and their audiences over three historical eras. Travelers have framed their experiences and observations through imaginative geographies and Orientalizing discourses, fixing Mongolia as a peripheral, timeless, primitive, and parochial place. Readers can examine the travelers’ literary and rhetorical strategies as they make themselves more credible and authoritative and as they identify themselves with Mongolians and Mongolian culture or, conversely, distance themselves. In this book, readers can also approach travel writing from the perspective of women travelers, Mongolian socialist intellectuals, twenty-first-century travelers, and a Han Chinese writer, Jiang Rong, who promotes cultural harmony yet anticipates the disappearance of Mongolian culture in China.
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"This biography examines the long life of the traveller and author Stephen Graham. Graham walked across large parts of the Tsarist Empire in the years before 1917, describing his adventures in a series of books and articles that helped to shape attitudes towards Russia in Britain and the United States. In later years he travelled widely across Europe and North America, meeting some of the best known writers of the twentieth century, including H.G. Wells and Ernest Hemingway. Graham also wrote numerous novels and biographies that won him a wide readership on both sides of the Atlantic. This book traces Graham's career as a world traveller, and provides a rich portrait of English, Russian and American literary life in the first half of the twentieth century. It also examines how many aspects of his life and writing coincide with contemporary concerns, including the development of New Age spirituality and the rise of environmental awareness. Beyond Holy Russia is based on extensive research in archives of private papers in Britain and the USA and on the many works of Graham himself. The author describes with admirable tact and clarity Graham's heterodox and convoluted spiritual quest. The result is a fascinating portrait of a man who was for many years a significant literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic."--Publisher's website.
English literature --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- Graham, Stephen, --- Russia --- Description and travel. --- written literature --- travel writing
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Edward Taylor Fletcher was born in England in 1817 and arrived in Canada as a young boy. An important figure in Canadian literature, Fletcher's writing was almost entirely forgotten by history. This volume gathers Fletcher's essays and poems, writings that describe a nineteenth-century Canada far more cosmopolitan than what we might have imagined.
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With a specific focus on travel narratives, this collection looks at how various Islamic and eastern cultural threads weaved themselves, through travel and trading networks, into Western European/Christian visual culture and discourse and, ultimately, into the artistic explosion which has been labeled the 'Renaissance'. Scholars from across humanities disciplines examine Islamic, Jewish, Spanish, Italian, and English works from a truly comparative and non-parochial perspective, to explore the transfer through travel of cultural and religious values and artistic and scientific practices, from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries.
Non-fiction --- Sociology of literature --- History of civilization --- anno 1000-1099 --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1100-1199 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Travel writing --- Travel, Medieval --- Culture diffusion --- Cultural diffusion --- Diffusion of culture --- Culture --- Social change --- Civilization, Medieval --- Travel --- Authorship --- History --- E-books --- Travelers' writings --- History and criticism. --- Eastern travels. --- Muslim-Christian encounters. --- cultural exchange. --- early modern. --- medieval. --- mercantile exchanges. --- renaissance. --- travel writing.
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Perhaps unexpectedly, English travel writing during the long eighteenth century reveals a discourse of global civility. By bringing together representations of the then already familiar Ottoman Empire and the largely unknown South Pacific, Sascha Klement adopts a uniquely global perspective and demonstrates how cross-cultural encounters were framed by Enlightenment philosophy, global interconnections, and even-handed exchanges across cultural divides. In so doing, this book shows that both travel and travel-writing from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries were much more complex and multi-layered than reductive Eurocentric histories often suggest.
Travel; Travel Writing; Ottoman Empire; South Pacific; The Long Eighteenth Century; Literature; Global History; Globalization; Cultural History; Migration; European History; Early Modern History; History --- Cultural History. --- Early Modern History. --- European History. --- Global History. --- Globalization. --- History. --- Literature. --- Migration. --- Ottoman Empire. --- South Pacific. --- The Long Eighteenth Century. --- Travel Writing.
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This book offers a wide-ranging survey of Australian engagement with the Pacific Islands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through over 100 hitherto largely unexplored accounts of travel, the author explores how representations of the Pacific Islands in letters, diaries, reminiscences, books, newspapers and magazines contributed to popular ideas of the Pacific Islands in Australia. It offers a range of valuable insights into continuities and changes in Australian regional perspectives, showing that ordinary Australians were more closely connected to the Pacific Islands than has previously been acknowledged. Addressing the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, this cultural history probes issues of nation and empire, race and science, commerce and tourism by focusing on significant episodes and encounters in history. This is a foundational text for future studies of Australia's relations with the Pacific, and histories of travel generally.
Travelers' writings, Australian --- History and criticism. --- Australian travelers' writings --- Australian literature --- travel writing --- Pacific Islands --- Tourism --- travel --- Australian history --- Islands of the Pacific --- Description and travel. --- Pacific Ocean Islands
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This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad application of “the autofictional” as a theoretical lens and aesthetic strategy. In three sections on “Approaches,” “Affordances,” and “Forms,” the volume proposes new theoretical approaches for the study of autofiction and the autofictional, offers fresh perspectives on many of the prominent authors in the discussion, draws them into a dialogue with autofictional practice from across the globe, and brings into view texts, forms, and media that have not traditionally been considered for their autofictional dimensions. The book, in sum, expands the parameters of research on autofiction to date to allow new voices and viewpoints to emerge.
Literature: history & criticism --- Literary theory --- Literature & literary studies --- Historiography --- Autofiction --- Autobiography --- Life writing --- Comparative literature --- World literature --- Narrative theory --- Biography --- Memoir --- Identity studies --- Postcolonialism --- Travel writing --- Open Access --- Autobiographical fiction --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy.
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Les auteurs de ce recueil cherchent à mesurer l'apport et à interroger les principaux acquis de deux décennies de recherches sur l'expérience des femmes voyageuses et sur leurs différents témoignages littéraires, qu'ils relèvent de la production imprimée ou des écritures intimes. L'analyse porte d'abord sur les ambiguïtés du regard féminin, à la fois caractérisé par une forme d'empathie pour l'Autre, spécialement pour la femme autochtone ou indigène, et simultanément porteur de préjugés de type national ou de type colonial sur les pays visités et sur leur société. Se trouve questionnée ensuite la manière dont ces femmes accèdent, au sein de l'espace public, à une visibilité et à une dignité nouvelles, en tant que femmes auteurs et en tant que sujets, grâce à des formes renouvelées de l'écriture viatique (qu'elle soit simple passe-temps ou témoignage élaboré) et grâce aux épreuves et aux difficultés que suppose la pratique même des voyages. Les sujets choisis concernent la période contemporaine, depuis les Lumières et le romantisme jusqu'au milieu du xxe siècle, et traitent le voyage comme démarche d'émancipation (comtesse d'Agoult ou personnages féminins des romans de George Sand) et comme démarche de connaissance (regard des Anglaises sur l'Algérie coloniale, reportages aux États-Unis de journalistes ou d'enseignantes), avec ses succès et aussi ses faux-semblants.
History of civilization --- Comparative literature --- anno 1800-1999 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Women travelers --- Travelers' writings, French. --- Travel writing --- Women in literature. --- Ecrits de voyageurs français --- Voyage --- Femmes dans la littérature --- History. --- Art d'écrire --- Histoire --- Voyageuses --- History --- Ecrits de voyageurs français --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Art d'écrire --- Literature, Romance --- Women's Studies --- voyage --- femmes --- histoire contemporaine
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