Russia and Iran in the great game : travelogues and Orientalism / Elena Andreeva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andreeva, Elena, 1963-

Series:

Routledge studies in Middle Eastern history ; 8.

Routledge studies in Middle Eastern history ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russians--Travel.

Russians.

Travelers' writings, Russian.

Iran--Description and travel.

Iran.

Travelers' writings, Russian--History and criticism.

Iran--History--Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925.

History.

Russians--Travel--Iran.

Travel writing--History.

Travel writing.

Physical Description:

xii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Contents:

1. Setting the stage

2. Orientalism Russian style

The concept of Orientalism : Western European version

Russian national identity and Russian Orientalism

3. Overview of the Russian travelogues and their authors

Pre-nineteenth Century Russian travelogues about Iran

The main features of the Russian travelogues about Iran in the nineteenth and early twentieth Centuries

The authors of the travelogues

4. The travelers' missions in Iran

Russian military aims and activities in Iran

Russian diplomacy in Iran

Russian emigrants in Iran

Russian trade in Iran

5. The travelers' self-representation vis-à-vis the Oriental "other" and the British "self"

6. The "travelees" : representation of Iran and her people by the Russian travelers

"Power of the gaze"

The "travelees" : manners and morals

7. The "travelees" : education, culture and society

The Iranian army

Lack of education

Iranian medicine

Iranian arts and architecture

Iran as "a country of ruins"

8. Islam as perceived by the Russian travelers

Mullahs, dervishes and sayyeds

Shiʾi and Sunni Muslims

Iranians and "infidels"

Muslim customs and rituals

9. Gender and ethnicity

Iranian women and prosaic harems

The travelers' religious and ethnic preferences

10. Travelers and travelees : Russians through Iranian eyes as imagined by the travelers (discourse with themselves)

'Anti-Romanticism'

Conclusion

Appendix : Iran before World War I

Appendix : travelogues.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-268) and index.

ISBN:

9780415771535

0415771536

9780203962206

0203962206

OCLC:

72988714