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

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On the Way to the "(Un)Known"?

The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450-1900)

Edited by: Doris Gruber and Arno Strohmeyer

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2022

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Volume 36 | Studies on Modern Orient

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This volume brings together twenty-two authors from various countries who analyze travelogues on the Ottoman Empire between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. The travelogues reflect the colorful diversity of the genre, presenting the experiences of individuals and groups from China to Great Britain. The spotlight falls on interdependencies of travel writing and historiography, geographic spaces, and specific practices such as pilgrimages, the hajj, and the harem. Other points of emphasis include the importance of nationalism, the place and time of printing, representations of fashion, and concepts of masculinity and femininity. By displaying close, comparative, and distant readings, the volume offers new insights into perceptions of "otherness", the circulation of knowledge, intermedial relations, gender roles, and digital analysis.

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Doris Gruber, Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Arno Strohmeyer, University of Salzburg, Austria.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
On the Way to the “(Un)Known”? The Ottoman Empire in Modern Travelogues: Introduction Arno Strohmeyer Open Access Download PDF	1
I Close Readings
Comparative Perspectives on the “Orient” and Kurdistan in Early Modern Ottoman and British Travelogues Gerald MacLean and Donna Landry Open Access Download PDF	29
“Prokesch and Goethe teach traveling like nobody else”: Anton Prokesch’s Travel Account of the Holy Land (1831) Barbara Haider-Wilson Open Access Download PDF	47
A Reluctant Observer Between Two Empires? The Travels of the Botanist Carl Haussknecht to the Ottoman Empire and Qajar Persia (1865 and 1866–1869) Christine Kämpfer and Stefan Knost Open Access Download PDF	69
The Ottoman Empire through the Eyes of a Chinese Pilgrim: Ma Dexin’s Hajj Travelogue in its Historical Context Alexander Jost Open Access Download PDF	91
Travels from the Orient, Travels to the Orient: Does Comparison Make Sense? Michael Harbsmeier Open Access Download PDF	113
II Intertextuality and Intermediality
Representations of the Tomb of Christ in Works Written, Designed, and Commissioned by Otto Friedrich von der Gröben Gabriele Leschke Open Access Download PDF	129
Travelogues as Raw Material of Political Knowledge: The Case of the “Oriental” States in the Renger Series (1707–1716) Volker Bauer Open Access Download PDF	147
Inherited or Witnessed? The Construction of “Otherness” in the Correspondence and Memoirs of Pavel Levashov (c. 1719–1820) Stefaniia Demchuk Open Access Download PDF	163
Oriental Images of Otherness: Fashion Encounters in French Travelogues and Other Representations of the Nineteenth Century Irini Apostolou Open Access Download PDF	181
III Discourses
Perceptions of the “Unknown”? Medieval and Early Modern Accounts of Pilgrimage to Jerusalem Maria E. Dorninger Open Access Download PDF	207
“The Barbarousnesse of Turkes and Time”: Discourses of Travel and History in Seventeenth-century Eastern Travelogues Anders Ingram Open Access Download PDF	225
The “Orient” in Europe? Crimea in Western Travelogues from the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries Nikita Khrapunov Open Access Download PDF	247
“The West of the Orient”: The Depiction of the Ottoman Capital in Persian Hajj Travelogues Güllü Yıldız Open Access Download PDF	273
IV Gendered Spaces
The Ottoman Imperial Harem in European Accounts (From the Fifteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century) Betül İpşirli Argıt Open Access Download PDF	295
Effeminate Rulers, Brave Soldiers? “Foreign” Masculinities in Selected Travelogues of Habsburg Diplomats in the Ottoman Empire Anna Huemer Open Access Download PDF	317
Keeping One’s Composure: Levantine Femininities in Hammer-Purgstall’s Travel Accounts and Memoirs Konrad Petrovszky Open Access Download PDF	337
V Distant Readings and Digital History
The Reshuffling of Middle Eastern Identities in the Age of Nationalism: Insights from Nineteenth-Century Travelogues Deniz T. Kılınçoğlu and Jörg Wettlaufer Open Access Download PDF	365
German-Language Travelogues on the “Orient” and the Importance of the Time and Place of Printing, 1500–1876 Doris Gruber Open Access Download PDF	385
Index Open Access Download PDF	407
List of Authors Open Access Download PDF	419
Erratum Open Access Download PDF	421

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421

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9

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eBook ISBN: 9783110698046

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Keywords for this book

Orient; early modern travel; travel literature; perceptions of otherness

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Historiker, Islamwissenschaftler, Judaisten, Iranisten, Kunsthistoriker, Literaturwissenschaftler, Digital Humanities

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