| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2022]
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (VII, 420 p.)
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| Disciplina |
915.610415
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| Collana |
Studies on Modern Orient
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| Soggetto topico |
HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt (see also Ancient / Egypt)
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| Soggetto non controllato |
Orient
early modern travel
perceptions of otherness
travel literature
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| ISBN |
3-11-069804-8
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
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
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| Record Nr. | UNISA-996487160703316 |
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On the Way to the "(Un)Known"? : The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450-1900) / / ed. by Doris Gruber, Arno Strohmeyer