Orientations

An Anthology of European Travel Writing on Europe

Wendy Bracewell, Wendy Bracewell, Alex Drace-Francis

• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9789639776104
• eBook ISBN:
  9786155211768
• Topic: Crescita personale
• Subtopic: Storia sociale

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of Contents
• East European Travel Writing: a Guide to Orientation
• I Europe in all its Variety (16th-18th centuries)
• Variations: Pilgrims, Emissaries, Scholars and Adventurers
• II. Voyages of Discovery (Late 18th to Mid-19th Century)
• On Travel Writing
• Discoveries In Europe
• Greeks: From the Frankish Lands to Europe
• Two Serbian Travellers in East and West
• From Moldaviaand Wallachia
• Hungarian Reformers Before 1848
• From Poland: Before and After Partition
• Domopis: Travels through the Homeland
• Domopis: Slav Travels
• Variations: Three Women
• III. On the Tourist Track (1850s–1930s)
• Tourist and Travel Writer
• The European Metropolis: Paris and the Rest
• Exoticism and the Self
• Domopis: Know Your Country
• Why Keep Writing about Travel?
• Variations
• IV. Europe Divided (1945-1989)
• The Tasks of Travel Writing
• Domopis: Fraternal Travels
• Cold War Variations
• V. A Single Europe? (Since 1989)
• Notes on Further Reading
• Copyright Acknowledgements
• Index