Henrietta Liston's Travels (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Henrietta Liston's Constantinople journal is a significant and hitherto virtually unknown work of women's travel writing. As the wife of the British Ambassador to the Porte, Liston had privileged access to parts of the Sultan's entourage and the Ottoman elite. Her 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. Yet it also offers a human-centred version of the picturesque, and includes depictions of a plague-ridden Constantinople, a visit to the harem of the Kaimakam, excursions to Belgrade Village, the presentation of ambassadors in the Seraglio, and the departure of pilgrims on the hajj. This edition features Liston's journal alongside a selection of her other, shorter writings from Turkey, including accounts of key diplomatic incidents and personal experiences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474467377
• Artikelnr.: 72421480

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.