Time and temporalities in European travel writing
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Time and temporalities in European travel writing
（Routledge research in travel writing）
Routledge, 2021
- : hbk
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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"--Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
This book is a collective effort to investigate and problematise notions of time and temporality in European travel writing from the late medieval period up to the late nineteenth century. It brings together nine researchers in European travel writing and covers a wide range of areas, travel genres, and languages, coherently integrated around the central theme of time and temporalities. Taken together, the contributions consider how temporal aspects evolve and change in regard to spatial, historical, and literary contexts. In a chapter-by-chapter account this volume thus offers various case studies that address the issue of temporality by showing, for example, how time is inscribed in landscape, how travellers' encounters with other temporalities informed other disciplines; it interrogates the idea of "cultural temporalities" in regard to a tension between past and future, passivity and progression; and focuses on how time is entangled in identity construction proper to travelogues.
Table of Contents
Paula Henrikson and Christina Kullberg, Time, Temporality, and Travel Writing: Introduction
1. Maximilian Benz and Christian Kiening, Time and Temporality in Travel Accounts from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries: Mandeville, Tucher, Ecklin
2. Christina Kullberg, Like Moses on the Nile: Competing Temporalities in Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre's Histoire generale des Antilles habitees par les Fran ois (1654/1667)
3. Sylvie Requemora-Gros, Signs of Travel and Memory: The Case of the Wooden Slabs in Jukkasjarvi (1681-1736)
4. Margaret R. Hunt, Almanacs, Polytemporality, and Early Modern Travel
5. Sunne 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 Palestine
8. Peter Stadius, Temporalities of the Anti-Modern: Angel Ganivet's Neo-Romantic Mapping of Western Civilisation
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