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Women --- Women --- Travelers' writings, English --- Travelers' writings, English --- Africa, North --- Middle East

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"Examining the history of the French experience of the Ottoman world and Turkey, this comparative study visits the accounts of early modern travelers for the insights they bring to the field of travel writing. The journals of contemporaries Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Jean Thevenot, Laurent D'Arvieux, Guillaume-Joseph Grelot, Jean Chardin, and Antoine Galland reveal a rich corpus of political, social, and cultural elements relating to the Ottoman Empire at the time, enabling an appreciation of the diverse shapes that travel narratives can take at a distinct historical juncture. Longino examines how these writers construct themselves as authors, characters, and individuals in keeping with the central human project of individuation in the early modern era, also marking the differences that define each of these travelers -- the shopper, the envoy, the voyeur, the arriviste, the ethnographer, the merchant. She shows how these narratives complicate and alter political and cultural paradigms in the fields of Mediterranean studies, 17th-century French studies, and cultural studies, arguing for their importance in the canon of early modern narrative forms, and specifically travel writing. The first study to examine these travel journals and writers together, this book will be of interest to a range of scholars covering travel writing, French literature, and history"--

Travelers' writings, French --- French prose literature --- History and criticism.

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Dutch literature --- Belgian travelers' writings --- Belgische reisbeschrijvingen --- Belgische reisverhalen --- Reisbeschrijvingen [Belgische ] --- Reisverhalen [Belgische ] --- Récits de voyage belges --- Travelers' writings [Belgian ] --- Waes, Tom --- Travel

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This book recovers the encounter with a 'multicultural' Britain by British travellers in the Tudor and Stuart periods. When William Camden, writing in the sixteenth century, set out to write the history of Britannia, he deliberately took to the roads to discover it first-hand, and those diverse cultures guided and informed his journeys. Here, John Cramsie offers original perspectives on Camden's multicultural Britain through the study of British travellers and their narratives. We meet characters such as the Tudor traveller John Leland, who intended to tell the peoples of England and Wales about themselves; chronicle how they came to settle the towns, villages, valleys, and mountaintops they called home; record the marks they left in the landscape; and celebrate the noble histories and cultures they created. Dozens - eventually hundreds - of Britons shared the same passion to meet their island neighbours and relate their experiences. The individuals studied in this book include actualas well as armchair travellers and those who blurred the boundaries between them. Their letters, diaries, journals, and histories range from the epic, poignant, and matter of fact to the exotic, preposterous, and hateful; the sources include actual and imaginative narratives and those which combined both elements. Travellers painted Britain with, in Leland's words, native colours that were rich, vibrant, and, above all, complex. Their remarkable journeys are the story of how Britons over two centuries met, interacted, and attempted (or not) to understand one another. Written with an eye to debates about immigration and ethnicity in today's Britain, the book emphasizes the long history of making and remaking the island's cultural mosaic. The encounter with Britain's native colours has beena burden of history and opportunity for millennia, not simply for our own times. JOHN CRAMSIE is Associate Professor, Department of History, Union College, NY.

Travelers' writings, British --- History and criticism. --- Camden, William, --- Influence. --- Great Britain --- Description and travel. --- British travelers' writings --- British literature --- Camdenus, Guilielmus, --- M. N., --- N., M., --- Description and travel

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At the beginning of the 18th century, the discovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum seemed to coincide with the developing interest in classical culture. But instead of noble innocence and simple grandeur, the visitors discovered a city with small, richly decorated houses with windowless, often obscenely painted rooms. The reports of these travellers try to reach a balance between these illustrations and the classical picture of antiquity. Die Entdeckung Pompejis und Herculaneums schien Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts in glücklicher Koinzidenz mit der Genese des klassizistischen Geschmacks zu erfolgen. Anstelle von "edler Einfalt und stiller Größe" erblickten Reisende jedoch eine Stadt kleiner, arabesk verzierter Gebäude mit fensterlosen, nicht selten obszön ausgeschmückten Räumen. Ihre Berichte ringen um einen Ausgleich mit dem klassizistischen Antikebild.

Germans --- Travelers' writings, German --- Art, German --- History and criticism. --- Classical influences. --- Pompeii (Extinct city)