Wendy Bracewell, Alex Drace-Francis (eds)
Under Eastern Eyes
A Comparative History of East European Travel Writing on Europe
Twelve studies explicitly developed to elaborate on travel writing published in book form by east Europeans travelling in Europe from ca. 1550 to 2000. How did east Europeans have positioned themselves with relation to the notion of Europe, and how has the genre of travel writing served as a means of exploring and disseminating these ideas?
Editors
Alex Drace-Francis
Alex Drace-Francis is Associate Professor of Modern European Literary and Cultural History at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Romanian and Balkan social, cultural and literary history; on travel writing and circulation of ideas and images; and on European identity as a whole.
- Title
- Under Eastern Eyes
- Subtitle
- A Comparative History of East European Travel Writing on Europe
- Editors
- Wendy Bracewell
- Alex Drace-Francis
- Price
- € 159,00 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789639776111
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 20 - 06 - 2008
- Dimensions
- 15.9 x 23.4 cm
- Categories
- Discipline
- History, Art History, and Archaeology
- Imprint
- CEU Press
- Also available as
- eBook PDF - € 158,99
Foreword
Wendy Bracewell, Alex Drace-Francis
1. Towards a natural history of east European travel writing
Alex Drace-Francis
2. The travel narrative as a (literary) genre
David Chirico
3. The limits of Europe in east European travel writing
Wendy Bracewell
4. ‘They are laughing at us’: Hungarian travellers and early modern European identity
Graeme Murdock
5. Travels through the Slav world
Wendy Bracewell
6. The Odyssey of national discovery: Hungarians in Hungary and abroad, 1750-1850
Irina V. Popova-Nowak
7. European identity and Romantic irony: Juliusz Slowacki’s journey to Greece
Maria Kalinowska
8. Metaphor and monumentality: The travels of Nicolae Iorga
Andi Mihalache
9. Oh, to be a European! What Rastko Petrovic learnt in Africa
Zoran Milutinovic
10. Excursions into national specificity and European identity: Mihail Sebastian’s interwar travel reportage
Diana Georgescu
11. The Cold-War traveller’s gaze: Jan Lenica’s 1954 sketchbook of London
Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius
12. Images of the West in Bulgarian travel writing during socialism (1945-1989)
Rossitza Guentcheva
Notes on contributors
