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This book examines time and temporality in European travel writings from the late medieval period to the turn of the nineteenth century. In eight case studies, framed with a theoretical introduction, the volume explores how temporal aspects have shaped the genre and the ways in which places visited are conveyed in the travellers' accounts.
List of contents
Paula Henrikson and Christina Kullberg,
Time, Temporality, and Travel Writing: Introduction1.
Maximilian Benz and Christian Kiening,
Time and Temporality in Travel Accounts from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries: Mandeville, Tucher, Ecklin2.
Christina Kullberg,
Like Moses on the Nile: Competing Temporalities in Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre's Histoire générale des Antilles habitées par les Fran¿ois (1654/1667)3.
Sylvie Requemora-Gros,
Signs of Travel and Memory: The Case of the Wooden Slabs in Jukkasjärvi (1681-1736)4.
Margaret R. Hunt,
Almanacs, Polytemporality, and Early Modern Travel 5.
Sünne Juterczenka,
Time Travel in the Pacific: Maritime Exploration and Eighteenth-Century German Historiography 6. Paula Henrikson,
Ruins and Revolutions: Jacob Berggren on Classical Soil 7.
Anna Bohlin,
Jerusalem in Every Soul: Temporalities of Faith in Fredrika Bremer's and Harriet Martineau's Travel Narratives of Palestine8.
Peter Stadius,
Temporalities of the Anti-Modern: Angel Ganivet's Neo-Romantic Mapping of Western Civilisation
About the author
Paula Henrikson is professor of Literature at Uppsala University. Her current research concerns the long nineteenth century with a special focus on Romantic classicism and philhellenism in Sweden. Previously, she has published on Romantic drama, textual criticism, and the history of philology in Sweden, and with Christian Janss she was the co-editor of Geschichte der Edition in Skandinavien (2013).
Christina Kullberg is professor of French at Uppsala University, specialised in contemporary Caribbean literature and early modern travel writing. Her publications include The Poetics of Ethnography in Martinican Narratives (2013) and Lire l'Histoire générale des Antilles de J.-B. Du Tertre: Exotisme et établissement français aux Îles (2020). Currently, she is completing a book entitled Entangled Voices in French Early Modern Travel Writing to the Caribbean.
Summary
This book examines time and temporality in European travel writings from the late medieval period to the turn of the nineteenth century. In eight case studies, framed with a theoretical introduction, the volume explores how temporal aspects have shaped the genre and the ways in which places visited are conveyed in the travellers’ accounts.
