Fictional and Real Travellers from Asia in Enlightenment Europe: Describing European Habits and Culture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction: Views on Europe. Gender Historical and Postcolonial Perspectives on Journeys 1
4. Fictional and Real Travellers from Asia in Enlightenment Europe: Describing European Habits and Culture 11
5. Suat Derviş, Journalist, Novelist and Feminist: Texts Written in Germany and Texts about Germany 29
6. “This Demolished Church was Equally the Face of Contemporary Europe” – Configurations and Representations of Twentieth Century Europe by Three Indian Travellers 59
7. The Empire Writes Back. Views on Europe from Hispanic America in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century 71
8. The Inverted Mirror: Brazilian Hybridity and European Picturesqueness in Nísia Floresta’s Travel Writing 83
9. The Minister, the Bride and the School Girl: English Canadians in Europe, 1860s–1880s 113
10. Family Album and Failure in Louise Bryant’s and Martha Gellhorn’s Travel Accounts in Russia 129
11. Beyond Geography: Europe as a Journey in Dumitru Tsepeneag’s Hotel Europa 147
12. List of authors 165