Under Eastern Eyes - A Comparative History of East European Travel Writing on Europe

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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?

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• Authors: Wendy Drace-Francis Bracewell
• Assisted by: Wendy Bracewell (Editor), Alex Drace-Francis (Editor)
• Publisher: Central european university pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.2008
• EAN: 9789639776111
• ISBN: 978-963-9776-11-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic