Orientations
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Orientations

An Anthology of European Travel Writing on Europe

  1. 424 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Orientations

An Anthology of European Travel Writing on Europe

About this book

Excerpts from over 100 travel writings of Europe, from 16th c. pilgrimage diaries thru early specimens of modern tourism accounts to 20th c. impressions from the other side of the Iron Curtain By focusing on east European travel writings, this work enlarges both the documentary base and the terms of the debate over a rich source for discussions of identities and mentalities; knowledge and power; gender; and cultural change.The texts – chosen for their relevance, but literary criteria have also been taken into account – illustrate the variety of ways in which east Europeans have written about the West. Most of the material is presented in English for the first time or, in a few cases, rescued from dusty oblivion in long out-of-print volumes. Each text is introduced with a short passage placing it in context.This is the first volume of the three-part set East Looks West. Vol. 2. Under Eastern Eyes. A Comparative Introduction to East European Travel Writing on Europe, 1550–2000; Vol. 3. A Bibliography of East European Travel Writing on Europe.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. East European Travel Writing: a Guide to Orientation
  6. I Europe in all its Variety (16th-18th centuries)
  7. Variations: Pilgrims, Emissaries, Scholars and Adventurers
  8. II. Voyages of Discovery (Late 18th to Mid-19th Century)
  9. On Travel Writing
  10. Discoveries In Europe
  11. Greeks: From the Frankish Lands to Europe
  12. Two Serbian Travellers in East and West
  13. From Moldaviaand Wallachia
  14. Hungarian Reformers Before 1848
  15. From Poland: Before and After Partition
  16. Domopis: Travels through the Homeland
  17. Domopis: Slav Travels
  18. Variations: Three Women
  19. III. On the Tourist Track (1850s–1930s)
  20. Tourist and Travel Writer
  21. The European Metropolis: Paris and the Rest
  22. Exoticism and the Self
  23. Domopis: Know Your Country
  24. Why Keep Writing about Travel?
  25. Variations
  26. IV. Europe Divided (1945-1989)
  27. The Tasks of Travel Writing
  28. Domopis: Fraternal Travels
  29. Cold War Variations
  30. V. A Single Europe? (Since 1989)
  31. Notes on Further Reading
  32. Copyright Acknowledgements
  33. Index