Discourses of travel, exploration, and European power in Egypt from 1750 to 1956 / edited by Valerie Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kennedy, Valerie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Egypt--Description and travel.

Egypt.

Egypt--In literature.

Egypt--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

This collection focuses on representations of Egypt between 1750 and 1956. Napoleon's Egyptian expedition of 1798-1801 failed in military terms, but succeeded in focusing Western attention on the country. The nation fascinated travellers because of its antiquity, its monuments, and its bazaars. In the nineteenth-century, the typical itinerary for travellers included Alexandria, Cairo, the Pyramids, and a journey by boat up the Nile to the temples of Luxor and others. Some of the essays included in this volume focus on fiction by writers like Samuel Johnson and Charles Dickens, or travel works by Florence Nightingale, Lucie Duff-Gordon, and Gérard de Nerval. Others analyse representations of Egypt by explorers, American ex-soldiers, French painters, British colonial administrators and sociologists, and a Russian doctor investigating the efficacy of Muhammad Ali's reforms in relation to the plague. There is also a discussion of the changes in nineteenth-century Egyptian dress.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: Orientalism in Several Voices

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Part II: British Colonialism in Egypt

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Part III: Ethnographic, Geographical, and Sociological Perspectives

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Kennedy, Valerie Discourses of Travel, Exploration, and European Power in Egypt from 1750 To 1956

ISBN:

9781527590557