On the Way to The (un)Known ? : : The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (C. 1450-1900).

• Superior document: Studies on Modern Orient Series ; v.36
• Author: Gruber, Doris.
• TeilnehmendeR: Strohmeyer, Arno.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on Modern Orient Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (428 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Table of Contents
• On the Way to the "(Un)Known"? The Ottoman Empire in Modern Travelogues: Introduction
• I Close Readings
• Comparative Perspectives on the "Orient" and Kurdistan in Early Modern Ottoman and British Travelogues
• "Prokesch and Goethe teach traveling like nobody else": Anton Prokesch's Travel Account of the Holy Land (1831)
• A Reluctant Observer Between Two Empires? The Travels of the Botanist Carl Haussknecht to the Ottoman Empire and Qajar Persia (1865 and 1866-1869)
• The Ottoman Empire through the Eyes of a Chinese Pilgrim: Ma Dexin's Hajj Travelogue in its Historical Context
• Travels from the Orient, Travels to the Orient: Does Comparison Make Sense?
• II Intertextuality and Intermediality
• Representations of the Tomb of Christ in Works Written, Designed, and Commissioned by Otto Friedrich von der Gröben
• Travelogues as Raw Material of Political Knowledge: The Case of the "Oriental" States in the Renger Series (1707-1716)
• Inherited or Witnessed? The Construction of "Otherness" in the Correspondence and Memoirs of Pavel Levashov (c. 1719-1820)
• Oriental Images of Otherness: Fashion Encounters in French Travelogues and Other Representations of the Nineteenth Century
• III Discourses
• Perceptions of the "Unknown"? Medieval and Early Modern Accounts of Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
• "The Barbarousnesse of Turkes and Time": Discourses of Travel and History in Seventeenth-century Eastern Travelogues
• The "Orient" in Europe? Crimea in Western Travelogues from the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
• "The West of the Orient": The Depiction of the Ottoman Capital in Persian Hajj Travelogues
• IV Gendered Spaces
• The Ottoman Imperial Harem in European Accounts (From the Fifteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century).
• Effeminate Rulers, Brave Soldiers? "Foreign" Masculinities in Selected Travelogues of Habsburg Diplomats in the Ottoman Empire
• Keeping One's Composure: Levantine Femininities in Hammer-Purgstall's Travel Accounts and Memoirs
• V Distant Readings and Digital History
• The Reshuffling of Middle Eastern Identities in the Age of Nationalism: Insights from Nineteenth-Century Travelogues
• German-Language Travelogues on the "Orient" and the Importance of the Time and Place of Printing, 1500-1876
• Index
• List of Authors.