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Under Eastern Eyes
A Comparative Introduction to East European Travel Writing on Europe, 1550–2000

East Looks West, Vol. 2.


The editors:
Wendy Bracewell, Senior Lecturer in History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
Alex Drace-Francis, lecturer in Modern European History, School of History, University of Liverpool

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?

A truly comparative and collective work with a substantial introductory study, the book has taken full advantage of the interdisciplinary and comparative potential of the team of project scholars working in the different national literatures, from different disciplinary perspectives.

This is the second volume of a three-part set of East Looks West. Vol. 1. Orientations: An Anthology of East European Travel Writing on Europe (forthcoming); Vol. 3. A Bibliography of East European Travel Writing on Europe


Contents

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 Słowacki’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 Petrović learnt in Africa, Zoran Milutinović; 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; Index

 


2008
400 pages
ISBN 978-963-9776-11-1 cloth $45.00 / €32.95 / £22.95

ISBN 978-963-9776-09-8 ö (number of the set)



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