TY - BOOK ID - 21753650 TI - Travel writing in Dutch and German, 1790-1930 : modernity, regionality, mobility AU - Martin, Alison E. AU - Missinne, Lut AU - Dam, Beatrix Theresa van PY - 2017 SN - 9781138999503 1138999504 9781315658223 1315658224 1317330412 9781317330394 9780367875220 PB - New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, DB - UniCat KW - Travelers' writings, German KW - Travelers' writings, Dutch KW - History and criticism. KW - 839.3-9 KW - 839.3-9 Nederlandse literatuur--?-9 KW - Nederlandse literatuur--?-9 KW - Non-fiction KW - Thematology KW - German literature KW - Dutch literature KW - anno 1800-1999 KW - anno 1700-1799 KW - Travel writing KW - Travel KW - Authorship KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:21753650 AB - This volume focuses on how travel writing contributed to cultural and intellectual exchange in and between the Dutch- and German-speaking regions from the 1790s to the twentieth-century interwar period. Drawing on a hitherto largely overlooked body of travelers whose work ranges across what is now Germany and Austria, the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking Belgium, the Dutch East Indies and Suriname, the contributors highlight the interrelations between the regional and the global and the role alterity plays in both spheres. They therefore offer a transnational and transcultural perspective on the ways in which the foreign was mediated to audiences back home. By combining a narrative perspective on travel writing with a socio-historically contextualized approach, essays emphasize the importance of textuality in travel literature as well as the self-positioning of such accounts in their individual historical and political environments. The first sustained analysis to focus specifically on these neighboring cultural and linguistic areas, this collection demonstrates how topographies of knowledge were forged across these regions by an astonishingly diverse range of travelling individuals from professional scholars and writers to art dealers, soldiers, (female) explorers, and scientific collectors. The contributors address cultural, aesthetic, political, and gendered aspects of travel writing, drawing productively on other disciplines and areas of scholarly research that encompass German Studies, Low Countries Studies, comparative literature, aesthetics, the history of science, literary geography, and the history of publishing. ER -