On the Way to the ""(Un)Known""?: The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450-1900)

Table of Contents
On the Way to the “(Un)Known”? The Ottoman Empire in Modern Travelogues: Introduction
I Close Readings
Comparative Perspectives on the “Orient” and Kurdistan in Early Modern Ottoman and British Travelogues
“Prokesch and Goethe teach traveling like nobody else”: Anton Prokesch’s Travel Account of the Holy Land (1831)
A Reluctant Observer Between Two Empires? The Travels of the Botanist Carl Haussknecht to the Ottoman Empire and Qajar Persia (1865 and 1866–1869)
The Ottoman Empire through the Eyes of a Chinese Pilgrim: Ma Dexin’s Hajj Travelogue in its Historical Context
Travels from the Orient, Travels to the Orient: Does Comparison Make Sense?
II Intertextuality and Intermediality
Representations of the Tomb of Christ in Works Written, Designed, and Commissioned by Otto Friedrich von der Gröben
Travelogues as Raw Material of Political Knowledge: The Case of the “Oriental” States in the Renger Series (1707–1716)
Inherited or Witnessed? The Construction of “Otherness” in the Correspondence and Memoirs of Pavel Levashov (c. 1719–1820)
Oriental Images of Otherness: Fashion Encounters in French Travelogues and Other Representations of the Nineteenth Century
III Discourses
Perceptions of the “Unknown”? Medieval and Early Modern Accounts of Pilgrimage to Jerusalem
“The Barbarousnesse of Turkes and Time”: Discourses of Travel and History in Seventeenth-century Eastern Travelogues
The “Orient” in Europe? Crimea in Western Travelogues from the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
“The West of the Orient”: The Depiction of the Ottoman Capital in Persian Hajj Travelogues
IV Gendered Spaces
The Ottoman Imperial Harem in European Accounts (From the Fifteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century)
Effeminate Rulers, Brave Soldiers? “Foreign” Masculinities in Selected Travelogues of Habsburg Diplomats in the Ottoman Empire
Keeping One’s Composure: Levantine Femininities in Hammer-Purgstall’s Travel Accounts and Memoirs
V Distant Readings and Digital History
The Reshuffling of Middle Eastern Identities in the Age of Nationalism: Insights from Nineteenth-Century Travelogues
German-Language Travelogues on the “Orient” and the Importance of the Time and Place of Printing, 1500–1876
Index
List of Authors