Michele Longino

French Travel Writing in the Ottoman Empire

Marseilles to Constantinople, 1650-1700

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining the history of the French experience of the Ottoman world and Turkey, this comparative study visits the accounts of early modern travelers for the insights they bring to the field of travel writing. The journals of contemporaries Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Jean Thévenot, Laurent D'Arvieux, Guillaume-Joseph Grelot, Jean Chardin, and Antoine Galland reveal a rich corpus of political, social, and cultural elements relating to the Ottoman Empire at the time, enabling an appreciation of the diverse shapes that travel narratives can take at a distinct historical juncture. The first study to examine these travel journals and writers together, this book will be of interest to a range of scholars covering travel writing, French literature, and history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781138822658
• ISBN-10: 1138822655
• Artikelnr.: 41370913

Autorenporträt

Michele Longino is Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Jeweler / Voyeur. Jean
Baptiste Tavernier (1605
1689) 2. The Tourist / Ethnographer. Jean Thévenot (1633
1667) 3. The Arriviste / Envoy. Laurent D'Arvieux (1635
1702) 4. The Conquering Artist. Guillaume
Joseph Grelot (1638
?) 5. The English Frenchman.. Jean Chardin (1643
1712) 6. The Reluctant Diarist. Antoine Galland (1646
1715) Conclusion