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On the Way to the ""(Un)Known""?: The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450-1900): 36 (Studies on Modern Orient, 36) - Hardcover

Gruber, Doris; Strohmeyer, Arno

 
9783110697605: On the Way to the ""(Un)Known""?: The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450-1900): 36 (Studies on Modern Orient, 36)

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

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

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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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