Animals in Dutch Travel Writing, 1800-present / Rick Honings, Esther Op De Beek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Honings, Rick, 1984- author.

Op de Beek, Esther, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Travelers' writings, Dutch.

Genre:

History.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Rick Honings is Scaliger Professor Special Collections at Leiden University and a specialist in nineteenth-century Dutch and Dutch Indies literature. In 2018 he published Star Authors in the Age of Romanticism: Literary Celebrity in the Netherlands, the international edition of his monograph De dichter als idool: Literaire roem in de negentiende eeuw (2016). In 2021, he co-edited De postkoloniale spiegel: De Nederlands-Indische letteren herlezen. Currently, he works with a research team on the NWO Vidi project Voicing the Colony: Travelers in the Dutch East Indies, 1800-1900. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Indische Letteren.Esther Op de Beek is an assistant professor in Modern Dutch Literature at Leiden University. She obtained her PhD at Radboud University Nijmegen, within the NWO-funded research project The Best Intentions, Literary Criticism in the Netherlands 1945-2005. Her research examines modern Dutch travel literature, literary criticism, and the circulation of happiness narratives in literature. She is a member of the editorial board of Nederlandse Letterkunde and delivered Cees Nooteboom. Avenue - 15 jaar wereldliteratuur (2013) and, together with Jos Muijres, Op de hielen: Opstellen over recente Nederlanse en Vlaamse literatuur (2014).

Summary:

Apart from humans, animals play a pivotal role in travel literature. However, the way they are represented in texts can vary from living companions to metaphorical entities. Existing studies mainly focus on the representation of conventional or unconventional roles that are assigned to animals from around the Napoleonic age until now, roles that have been subject to change and that tell us a lot about human reflections on encounters with non-human creatures and the position of man in this rapidly changing world. In this edited volume, scholars from the Netherlands and abroad analyse the roles that animals play in Dutch travel literature from 1800 to the present. In this way, we aim to provide new insights into the relationships between man and animals, in textual expressions and real life, and to add the 'Dutch case' to the flourishing international field of travel writing studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART I Colonial Encounters: Framing the Animal

Chapter 1. Roaring Tigers, Grunting Buffalo, and Slithering Snakes Along the Javanese Road: A Comparative Examination of Dutch and Indonesian Travel Writing

Chapter 2. Naming the World: Pieter Bleeker’s Travels and the Challenges of Archipelagic Biodiversity

Chapter 3. Empire as Horseplay? Writing the Java Pony in the Nineteenth Century through the Lenses of Mobility, Modernity, and Race

Chapter 4. The Sound of the Tokkeh and the Tjitjak: The Representation of the Tokay Gekko and Common House Gekko in Dutch-Indies Travel Literature

Chapter 5. Monkeys as Metaphor: Ecologies of Representation in Dutch Travel Writing about Suriname from the Colonial Period

Chapter 6. Becoming a Beast in the Long Run: Travelling Perpetrators and the Animal as Metaphor for Violence

PART II Living Apart Together: Animals in Modern Travel Writing

Chapter 7. ‘Do You Really Think a Donkey Has No Heart?’ Betsy Perk and her Cadette

Chapter 8. Naturalist Lessons from the North: Human and Non-Human Animals in Niko Tinbergen’s Eskimoland (1934) and Jac. P. Thijsse’s Texel (1927)

Chapter 9. The Land of the Living Fossils: Animals in Travelogues for Dutch-Australian Emigrants, 1950-1970

Chapter 10. A Lesson in Happiness: Animals and Nostalgia in the Travel Stories of Leonhard Huizinga

Chapter 11. Noble Horse and Lazy Pig: Frank Westerman and Yvonne Kroonenberg in Quest of Domestic Animals

Notes on the Contributors

Index

Notes:

"Amsterdam University Press"

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ISBN:

9789400604476

9400604475

OCLC:

1380732379

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access