On the Way to the "(Un)Known"? : The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450-1900)
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Gruber, Doris
, [HerausgeberIn]
Strohmeyer, Arno, 1963- , [HerausgeberIn] |
|---|---|
| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2022]
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| Umfang/Format: |
1 online resource (vii, 420 pages) Issued also in print. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Studies on Modern Orient ;
36 |
| ISBN: | 9783110698046 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9783110698046 |
| Schlagworte: | |
| Parallelausgabe: |
On the way to the "(un)known"? : the Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450-1900) (Print version) |
| Online-Zugang: |
open access |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- On the Way to the "(Un)Known"? The Ottoman Empire in Modern Travelogues: Introduction
- I Close Readings
- Comparative Perspectives on the "Orient" and Kurdistan in Early Modern Ottoman and British Travelogues
- "Prokesch and Goethe teach traveling like nobody else": Anton Prokesch's Travel Account of the Holy Land (1831)
- A Reluctant Observer Between Two Empires? The Travels of the Botanist Carl Haussknecht to the Ottoman Empire and Qajar Persia (1865 and 1866-1869)
- The Ottoman Empire through the Eyes of a Chinese Pilgrim: Ma Dexin's Hajj Travelogue in its Historical Context
- Travels from the Orient, Travels to the Orient: Does Comparison Make Sense?
- II Intertextuality and Intermediality
- Representations of the Tomb of Christ in Works Written, Designed, and Commissioned by Otto Friedrich von der Gröben
- Travelogues as Raw Material of Political Knowledge: The Case of the "Oriental" States in the Renger Series (1707-1716)
- Inherited or Witnessed? The Construction of "Otherness" in the Correspondence and Memoirs of Pavel Levashov (c. 1719-1820)
- Oriental Images of Otherness: Fashion Encounters in French Travelogues and Other Representations of the Nineteenth Century
- III Discourses
- Perceptions of the "Unknown"? Medieval and Early Modern Accounts of Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
- "The Barbarousnesse of Turkes and Time": Discourses of Travel and History in Seventeenth-century Eastern Travelogues
- The "Orient" in Europe? Crimea in Western Travelogues from the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
- "The West of the Orient": The Depiction of the Ottoman Capital in Persian Hajj Travelogues
- IV Gendered Spaces
- The Ottoman Imperial Harem in European Accounts (From the Fifteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century)
- Effeminate Rulers, Brave Soldiers? "Foreign" Masculinities in Selected Travelogues of Habsburg Diplomats in the Ottoman Empire
- Keeping One's Composure: Levantine Femininities in Hammer-Purgstall's Travel Accounts and Memoirs
- V Distant Readings and Digital History
- The Reshuffling of Middle Eastern Identities in the Age of Nationalism: Insights from Nineteenth-Century Travelogues
- German-Language Travelogues on the "Orient" and the Importance of the Time and Place of Printing, 1500-1876
- Index
- List of Authors
