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On the Way to The (un)Known ? : The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (C. 1450-1900).

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gruber, Doris.
Other Authors: Strohmeyer, Arno.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2022.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Studies on Modern Orient Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • 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 Gròˆben
  • 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.

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