On the Way to the "(Un)Known"? : : The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450-1900) /

On the Way to the "(Un)Known"? : : The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450-1900) / / ed. by Doris Gruber, Arno Strohmeyer.

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Nineteen authors from nine countries analyze reports of travels to the Ottoman Empire between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries. The volume discusses questions of perceptions of "otherness", the circulation of knowledge, intermedial relations, gender roles, and explores possibilit...

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MitwirkendeR:
Apostolou, Irini,
Argıt, Betül İpşirli,
Bauer, Volker,
Demchuk, Stefaniia,
Dorninger, Maria E.,
Gruber, Doris,
Haider-Wilson, Barbara,
Harbsmeier, Michael,
Huemer, Anna,
Ingram, Anders,
Jost, Alexander,
Khrapunov, Nikita,
Knost, Stefan,
Kämpfer, Christine,
Kılınçoğlu, Deniz T.,
Landry, Donna,
Leschke, Gabriele,
MacLean, Gerald,
Petrovszky, Konrad,
Strohmeyer, Arno,
Wettlaufer, Jörg,
Yıldız, Güllü,
HerausgeberIn:
Gruber, Doris,
Strohmeyer, Arno,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
©2022
Julkaisuvuosi:2022
Kieli:English
Sarja:Studies on Modern Orient Ser.
Ulkoasu:1 online resource (VII, 420 p.)
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Sisällysluettelo:
  • 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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