Henrietta Liston's Travels

The Turkish Journals, 1812-1820
Herausgeber: Petherbridge, Dora; Kennedy, Valerie; Hart, Patrick

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Henrietta Liston's Constantinople journal details her journey by sea from England to Istanbul and the diplomatic mission's Mediterranean stops at the time of the Napoleonic wars and reflects on the political situation of Europe, focusing in particular on the British and the Ottoman Empires.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 163mm x 240mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781474467353
• ISBN-10: 1474467350
• Artikelnr.: 59508716

Autorenporträt

Patrick Hart is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Literature at Bilkent University, Ankara. He is founder and editor of the Journal of the Northern Renaissance. Valerie Kennedy is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Literature at Bilkent University, Ankara. She is author of Edward Said: A Critical Introduction (Polity, 2000). Dora Petherbridge is Curator of North American and Commonwealth Collections at the National Library of Scotland.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations & Maps
Acknowledgements
Part I: Critical Introduction: The Eye of a Stranger
1. 'Out of your world': Liston's Turkish Travels
Patrick Hart
2. Approaching Henrietta Liston: A Biographical Sketch
Dora Petherbridge
3. The Diplomatic Context
Kenneth Weisbrode
4. The Ottoman Social and Political Contexts
F. Özden Mercan
5. Encountering Liston's Turkish Writings
Valerie Kennedy
6. Locating Liston: Women's Travel Writing and the Ottoman Empire
Valerie Kennedy
7. The Manuscripts: Composition, Revision, Dating, Readership
Patrick Hart
Part II: Liston's Turkish Writings
1. The Turkish Journal, 1812-1814
2. Selected Further Writings
Chronology of the Life and Times of Henrietta Liston
Bibliography
Index.