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Time and temporalities in European travel writing / edited by Paula Henrikson and Christina Kullberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge research in travel writing
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travelers' writings, European--History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings, European.
- Travel in literature.
- Time in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 232 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Introduction * : Time, Temporality, and Travel Writing
- Points of Departure
- Social and Historical Time
- Time in Narration and Description
- The Traveller's Times and the Times of Others
- This Volume: An Overview
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Chapter 1: Time and Temporality in Travel Accounts from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries * : Mandeville, Tucher, Ecklin
- Outlines of Christian Spatiotemporality
- Mandeville's Travels
- Hans Tucher's Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
- Daniel Ecklin's Reißbüchlin
- Effects of (De-)temporalisation in the Early Modern Period
- Chapter 2: Like Moses on the Nile * : Competing Temporalities in Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre's Histoire générale des Antilles habitées par les François (1654/1667)
- Histories and Futurities
- Dislocations and Relocations
- Colonial Temporalities and the Others
- Concluding Remarks
- Chapter 3: Signs of Travel and Memory * : The Case of the Wooden Slabs in Jukkasjärvi (1681-1736)
- Aspiring Socialite Travelling North: Regnard
- The Huguenot Following Regnard: La Motraye
- The Scientist and the Inscriptions: Maupertuis
- Chapter 4: Almanacs, Polytemporality, and Early Modern Travel
- The Almanac as a Travel Anti-Narrative
- Day to Day Polytemporality
- Historical Chronologies and Exotic Calendars
- Futures Present
- Almanacs and Travel Narratives
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5: Time Travel in the Pacific * : Maritime Exploration and Eighteenth-Century German Historiography
- Exploration and Historiography
- The Göttingen Historians and Pacific Exploration
- Conclusions
- Chapter 6: Ruins and Revolutions * : Jacob Berggren on Classical Soil
- Between Antiquity and Modernity
- Ancient Myths and Modern Clocks
- Layered Temporalities
- Flight into Egypt
- Chapter 7: Jerusalem in Every Soul * : Temporalities of Faith in Fredrika Bremer's and Harriet Martineau's Travel Narratives of Palestine
- Martineau's Vision of the Past
- Bremer's Allegorical Geography
- Temporalities of Faith: Kairos and Chronos
- Nations and Orientalism
- The Hebrew People: The Model Nation
- Landscape, Time, Nationalism
- Chapter 8: Temporalities of the Anti-Modern: Angel Ganivet's Neo-Romantic Mapping of Western Civilisation
- Angel Ganivet, His Work and His Time
- Conflicting Time Conceptualisations
- Pan-Latin Chronopolitics
- On the Relativity of Progress
- On Coevalness: Was Ganivet a Precursor of Southern Epistemologies?
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 21, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 1000289699
- 9781000289619
- 1000289613
- 9781000289657
- 1000289656
- 9781003129240
- 1003129242
- 9781000289695
- Publisher Number:
- 40030309656
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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