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| Gerson, Stephane. “PARISIAN LITTERATEURS, PROVINCIAL JOURNEYS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL UNITY IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE.” Past & Present [Great Britain] 1996 (151): 141-173.
Abstract: Examines the role of 19th-century Parisian intellectuals in constructing national unity through the forum of their provincial travels and writings about those journeys. The domestic travel genre was generated by four types of travel authors: the worldly, the learned, the encyclopedist and the inspector, and the picturesque. Their writings, although based on a common endeavor, show varying points of view. Overall the genre represented attempts to reunify the nation while illuminating broader sociopolitical concerns and establishing various discursive categories. * Period: 19c. Cunningham, Isabel Shipley. “TEA AND EMPATHY: NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH VISITORS IN BALTIMORE.” Maryland Historical Magazine 1996 91(4): 467-483. Abstract: From 1830 until 1890, a small group of English travelers consisting of writers, businessmen, and tourists visited and published accounts of their excursions to Baltimore. These accounts give descriptive details of most major religious institutions, commercial centers, historical monuments, parks, and schools. Often these writers colorfully describe their journeys whether by boat, train, or horse and sleigh. Prominent businessman George Sala and Frances Trollope, the mother of writer Anthony Trollope, both kept vivid diaries of their experiences in Baltimore, frequently commenting on the city's accommodations and such social issues pertaining to the period as slavery. * Period: 1830-90. Haldane, Katherine J. “"NO HUMAN FOOT COMES HERE": VICTORIAN TOURISTS AND THE ISLE OF SKYE.” Nineteenth Century Studies 1996 10: 69-91. Abstract: Surveys traditional British romantic views of Scotland's Isle of Skye as a locale of untamed nature, which were typified by the writings of John McCulloch and Walter Scott between 1815 and 1824, and describes how the works of British travel writers who visited the island between the 1840's and the 1880's portrayed it as the opposite of Victorian England, a purely natural realm that offered an encounter with the sublime. * Period: 1815-80's. Salvatore, Ricardo D. “NORTH AMERICAN TRAVEL NARRATIVES AND THE ORDERING/OTHERING OF SOUTH AMERICA (C. 1810-1860).” Journal of Historical Sociology [Great Britain] 1996 9(1): 85-110. Abstract: From the 1810's to 1860, North American authors of travel accounts engaged in a double construction of "South America": the othering typical of other travel narratives and the ordering of the diversity of the region's societies, economies, and polities according to gender, racial, and class categories. Describing social and institutional landscapes, authors projected preoccupations common to the expansive cultures of North America into "South America." Unable to homogenize the Other or naturalize the landscape, travelers used the space of the narrative to reflect upon the nature and future of "America." * Period: ca 1810-60. White, Helen M. “IGNATIUS DONNELLY MEETS THE SWEDES.” Minnesota History 1996 55(1): 16-31. Abstract: Ignatius Donnelly, who became one of Minnesota's most important legislators and the vice-presidential running mate of William Jennings Bryan in 1900, made his first trip to the state in 1856 from his home in Philadelphia. His account of this journey - undertaken with his wife, and her nephew and cousin - reveals a great deal about the physical nature and challenges of the fledgling territory, including the initial settlements that had been built and promoted by Eastern speculators. The account also describes some of Minnesota's first Swedish inhabitants, the ethnic population that would so shape the state's character. * Period: 1856. Bland, Richard. “TRANSLATION OF TRAUGOTT BROMME'S HANDBOOK.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 1996 55(2): 194-198. Abstract: Introduces and prints a translation of the Arkansas section of German traveler Traugott Bromme's Hand- and Travel-Book for Emigrants to the United States of North America, Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Saint Thomas of Guatemala, and the Mosquito Coast 5th ed. (1848). The selection, based in part on Bromme's US sojourn in the 1820's, discusses the natural setting and sparse settlement of Arkansas. * Period: 1820's-40's. Jarvis, Edward; Chapin, Sarah, ed. “EDWARD JARVIS'S JOURNAL.” Filson Club History Quarterly 1996 70(3): 227-303. Abstract: Records Doctor Edward Jarvis's (1803-84) journey by steamboat from Louisville, Kentucky, to New Orleans, his cordial visit with two brothers and a sister, and his return trip. Jarvis's journal reveals much about steamboat travel on the Mississippi River in the mid-19th century: frequent stops to purchase wood, the sighting of other vessels on the river such as flatboats and steamboats, the dangers of passing through narrow channels, and the problems of high and low water and obstructions in the river. Jarvis was very observant of the communities he encountered and the details surrounding the mechanics of the ship. * Period: 1841. Ekhtiar, Maryam. “AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE RUSSIAN CZAR: THE IMAGE OF PETER THE GREAT IN EARLY QAJAR HISTORICAL WRITINGS.” Iranian Studies 1996 29(1-2): 57-70. Abstract: When a group of Iranian intellectuals went to Europe looking for a formula for progress in the 1820's, the French and English Enlightenment texts that were popular among the European intelligentsia influenced a "discourse of change" in Iran. The hero they chose for their model was Peter the Great (1682-1725) of Russia, a historical figure they could both admire and distrust. The Safarnamas that resulted were travel diaries with an edifying mission - to revive past glories, understand current disillusionment, and catch up with Europe. To writers such as Mirs 'Abd al-Latif Shushtari, 'Abdal Razzaq Dunbuli (1753-1856), and Mustafa Khan Afshar, and to Qajar heir apparent 'Abbas Mirza (1788-1833), Peter represented military success, civilization and refinement, and sophistication in science and technology. Thus, the European model served to offer the Qajars a glimpse of hope for reform and revival. * Period: 1780's-1830's. Pethiyagoda, Rohan. “GEORGE BENNETT, THE PLAGIARIST.” Archives of Natural History [Great Britain] 1996 23(3): 445-447. Abstract: George Bennett's Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore and China (1834) contains a passage on the coconut tree plagiarized from John Whitchurch Bennett's Treatise on the Coco-Nut Tree (1831). George Bennett, a well-known physician and traveler who settled in Australia, plagiarized an account of the tradition of the discovery of the coconut tree by the mythical Sinhalese prince Kottah Rajah from his less celebrated namesake, a naval officer who acted as a sitting magistrate in Ceylon in the 1820's. The account itself is of no particular interest, but the plagiarism was clearly deliberate. * Period: 1831-34. Barton, H. Arnold. “ITER SCANDINAVICUM: FOREIGN TRAVELERS' VIEWS OF THE LATE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NORTH.” Scandinavian Studies 1996 68(1): 1-18. Abstract: Summarizes the accounts of 13 travelers from England, Spain, France, Italy, and Germany who visited Scandinavia in the late 18th century. In general they depicted the landscape as beautiful, but the people poor, uneducated, and uncultured. The largest cities, such as Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm, were treated with some admiration, while the countryside was viewed as backward. The accounts reflect the Romantic vision of the day and reveal as much about the writers as about their subject. All of the travelers were upper-class authors writing for an aristocratic audience. * Period: 1770's-1800. Tudela, Elisa Sampson Vera. “VOYAGES IN THE NEW WORLD CLOISTER: THE REPRESENTATION OF TRAVEL IN THE HAGIOGRAPHIC LITERATURE OF NEW SPAIN.” History and Anthropology [Great Britain] 1996 9(2-3): 191-206. Abstract: The travel narratives contained in the chronicles and hagiographies composed in convents in 17th- and 18th-century New Spain retell both the spiritual journeys and the real transatlantic voyages of Spanish nuns and also represent the export of Spanish cultural and religious orthodoxies to the New World. To a degree the voyages are represented as "static" in that the nuns never enter the world - their cloister and its special "time" is simply transported to a different place - but at the same time the nuns are always potential martyrs threatened by barbarism. Manuscript chronicles created a notion of a community with a shared history, showing the inspirational piety and behavior of the founding mothers, while printed narratives intended for a wider audience had more explicitly political purposes, notably the promotion of specific religious orders. * Period: 17c-18c. Alam, Muzaffar and Subrahmanyam, Sanjay. “DISCOVERING THE FAMILIAR: NOTES ON THE TRAVEL-ACCOUNT OF ANAND RAM MUKHLIS, 1745.” South Asia Research [Great Britain] 1996 16(2): 131-154. Abstract: The only travel literature indigenous to South Asia was written in Persian from the 15th through the 18th centuries. One example of this genre is the Safar Nama-i Mukhlis (1745), which was written by Anand Ram Mukhlis, one of the foremost stylists of 18th-century Indo-Persian * Period: 15c-18c. Drayton, William; Krawczynski, Keith, ed. “WILLIAM DRAYTON'S JOURNAL OF A 1784 TOUR OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA BACKCOUNTRY.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 1996 97(3): 182-205. Abstract: Introduces and prints William Drayton's travel account, which contains fascinating and useful information on the backcountry of South Carolina immediately following the American Revolution. Drayton covered five hundred miles in four weeks; his account reveals very little about himself, but he does comment on the navigability of waterways, the condition of roads, geographical formations, soil fertility, crops, urban growth, and the like. While the Revolutionary War had been over for some time, Drayton reports on the enormous ruin caused by that conflict on both men and their property. * Period: 1784. Percy, Carol E. “"TO STUDY NATURE RATHER THAN BOOKS": CAPTAIN JAMES COOK AS NATURALIST OBSERVER AND LITERARY AUTHOR.” Pacific Studies 1996 19(3): 1-30. Abstract: Explores several apparent inconsistencies in the self-promulgated image of Captain James Cook as the epitome of the 18th-century explorer, an observer who recorded exactly and only what he had seen. Cook's ongoing habit of appropriating and simplifying the observations of others can be reconciled with his reputation as a scrupulous observer; on his first voyage, for instance, he simplified the naturalist observations of the specialist Joseph Banks to better reflect what he had seen. Moreover, as Paul Carter has argued, Cook's often highly subjective language reflects the scientist's awareness that even the most carefully made observation is inescapably subjective: the scientist's duty is to acknowledge and to locate precisely that subjective stance. But Cook's integrity as a scientific observer became increasingly impaired by his aspirations to authorship. In the manuscript journal of his final voyage, at least one borrowed (and unacknowledged) passage did not describe what Cook himself had seen. And though in his writings Cook sought to sustain the rhetorically effective nonspecialist perspective of the "plain" and thus "honest" man, his problematic attitude toward specialist and nonspecialist terminology indicates how Cook's subjective stance becomes increasingly difficult to locate. * Period: 1760's-70's. Berger, Shlomo. “THE DESIRE TO TRAVEL: A NOTE ON ABRAHAM LEVY'S YIDDISH ITINERARY (1719-1723).” Aschkenas [Austria] 1996 6(2): 497-506. Abstract: Discusses a travel account written in 1764 by a Dutch Jew, Abraham Levy (ca. 1701-85), describing his travels throughout Europe from 1719 to 1723. Born and raised in Germany, Levy was well educated and pursued a career in commerce. His account of his travels, which were in the nature of the European "grand tour," is important for several reasons: composed in Yiddish (despite his excellent knowledge of Hebrew), it is a rare exemplar of the Dutch branch of "West Yiddish"; unpublished until the 19th century, the account is a little-known and thus underutilized source on early-18th-century Jewish communities (and non-Jewish affairs); Levy's text also documents the mentality of a Jew of his era toward both the Jewish and gentile worlds. A distinct characteristic of his account is its portrayal of the two juxtaposed but separate worlds of Jews and Christians. * Period: 1719-23. Sammons, Jeffrey L. “FRIEDRICH GERSTACKER: GERMAN REALIST OF THE AMERICAN WEST.” Yale University Library Gazette 1995 70(1-2): 39-46. Abstract: In his novels about mid-19th-century German emigration to the American West, Friedrich Gerstacker (1816-72) sought not only to sell books to support himself but also to give prospective emigrants a realistic account of what to expect. Gerstacker is best known now for his children's stories but he wrote in a broad range of genres. His travels throughout the world were the basis for much of his adventure fiction as well as his travel accounts. His simple and realistic style does not appeal to modern readers or critics but much can be learned by studying the mechanics of how he accomplished his purposes. * Period: 1837-72. Ingle, H. Larry. “JOSEPH WHARTON GOES SOUTH, 1853.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 1995 96(4): 304-328. Abstract: Introduces and prints edited letters written by a young Joseph Wharton revealing the future industrialist's beliefs about slavery and observations concerning Southern social conditions and business activities. Wharton wrote the letters while traveling in the South in early 1853 with fellow Quaker and business partner Joseph B. Matlack, with whom Wharton was seeking customers for a brick-making machine patent. * Period: 1853. Thurston, John. “"THE DUST OF TORYISM": MONARCHISM AND REPUBLICANISM IN UPPER CANADIAN TRAVEL AND IMMIGRATION TEXTS.” Journal of Canadian Studies [Canada] 1995-1996 30(4): 75-87. Abstract: Analyzes a representative sample of travel and immigration texts set in Upper Canada, from John Howison (1821) to Samuel Strickland (1853), to show the struggle between images of republicanism and monarchism. The author identifies a pervasive fear in these writers of the contamination of the colony with principles and behavior entirely contrary to its British origins. The construction of the colony in these texts was rife with the possibilities of transculturation through their delivery of the discourse of republicanism to the British reading public. * Period: 1821-53. Anderson-Lawrence, Jennifer. “AMERICAN HORTICULTURE OBSERVED: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TRAVEL JOURNALS (CA. 1650-1850).” Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife. Annual Proceedings 1995 20: 166-173. Abstract: Presents an annotated list of 66 travel journals written ca. 1650-1850 by both Americans and Europeans describing the American landscape, climate, soil, gardens, and agricultural potential or land conditions. * Period: ca 1650-1850. Grant, Richard B. “VICTOR HUGO'S LE RHIN AND THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 1995 23(3-4): 324-340. Abstract: The letters that constitute Victor Hugo's Le Rhin are much more than an account of the poet's three trips to the Rhineland (1838-40), which were combined into a single narrative. The late 1830's were very stressful years in Hugo's life, and as he approached the age of forty he felt the need to examine who he truly was. In key episodes of his narrative he projected aspects of his inner being into characters and places that he met along the way, revealing many often hidden facets of his being to his readers, if not, one suspects, always to himself. * Period: ca 1838-40. Roddy, Stephen J. “JAPANESE AND CHINESE TRAVEL NARRATIVES ON THE EVE OF WESTERNIZATION.” Halcyon 1995 17: 77-94. Abstract: Analyzes the similarities of two 18th- and 19th-century travel accounts from Japan, Furuyu Shidoken Den [The biography of the romantic scholar], and from China, Jinghua Yuan [Flowers in the mirror]. The author compares their satirical depiction of the same exotic places and their ridicule of Confucian doctrines and the ills of society. Both books emphasize gender reversal as a solution to social disorders. * Period: 1750's-1830's. Corgan, James X. and Gibson, Michael A. “GEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION IN EAST TENNESSEE: GERARD TROOST'S TRAVELS IN 1834.” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 1995 54(2): 140-153. Abstract: Dutch-born Gerard Troost, Tennessee's first state geologist, made an expedition through Middle and East Tennessee and northern Alabama in April and May 1834. The East Tennessee portion of the trip was the first extensive geological reconnaissance conducted in that region. Troost's notes from his time in East Tennessee, reprinted here, record events and observations for 13-28 April and reveal the life of an "urbane, sophisticated traveler" visiting "out-of-the-way places," where he relied on good relations with the locals for food and lodging. Troost's work on the trip resulted in the publication of his findings and won continued funding for his position. * Period: 1834. Pallante, Martha. “THE TREK WEST: EARLY TRAVEL NARRATIVES AND PERCEPTIONS OF THE FRONTIER.” Michigan Historical Review 1995 21(1): 83-99. Abstract: Late-18th- and early-19th-century travelers to Ohio who recorded their impressions in letters, diaries, or published narratives judged the world around them based on the standards of their New England homes. They tended to focus mostly on the conditions of the roads and rivers they traveled on, the productive potential of the land, and the people they met along the way. These travelers and immigrants did not go west to seek out the wilderness but were determined to find and to build something familiar and were more critical the less their surroundings met with their eastern notions of what was civilized. * Period: 1788-1820's. Versteeg, Jennie. “NOT YOUR ORDINARY SLEIGH RIDE: TWO EARLY-NINETEENTH-CENTURY WINTER TRAVELERS ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN.” Vermont History 1995 63(1): 5-14. Abstract: Discusses the perils of winter travel on Lake Champlain using the travel narratives of two Englishmen, Hugh Gray and Francis Hall. Hall's Travels in Canada and the U.S. 1816-17 describes a trip across Lake Champlain in 1816, en route to his assignment in Quebec. Gray's account is drawn from a series of letters written from 1806 to 1808 during his stay in Canada. * Period: 1808-16. Chapin, Chester. “SAMUEL JOHNSON, ANTHROPOLOGIST.” Eighteenth-Century Life 1995 19(3): 22-37. Abstract: Reconsiders aspects of Samuel Johnson's views on civilization, savagery, and human equality through an examination of his translation of Portuguese missionary Jeronimo Lobo's early 17th-century travel account on Ethiopia. * Period: 17c-18c. Kiseleva, Lyubov. “EUROPE OF THE 1770S THROUGH THE EYES OF A RUSSIAN SAILOR: ALEKSANDR SHISHKOV.” Culture & History [Norway] 1995 (14): 67-73. Abstract: Compares critical impressions of two Russian travelers, Aleksandr Shishkov and Denis Fonvizin, to France and Italy in the 1770's, noting their general preference for Russian culture and climate over the intrigues and beauty of Western Europe. * Period: 1770's. Dierick, Augustinus P. “MONEY, MORALITY AND POLITICS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: DIDEROT'S VOYAGE EN HOLLANDE.” Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies [Canada] 1995 16(1): 22-34. Abstract: In his Voyage en Hollande et dans les Pays-Bas Autrichiens [Journey to Holland and the Austrian Netherlands], French philosopher and encyclopedist Denis Diderot recorded his impressions of Holland shortly after two stays of several months each in 1773 and 1777. He failed to see that industry rather than traditional commerce would revolutionize world economy and that the future would belong to England, not to Holland. * Period: 1773-74. Lamb, Jonathan. “MINUTE PARTICULARS AND THE REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH PACIFIC DISCOVERY.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 1995 28(3): 281-294. Abstract: Examines the reasons for the public outcry over John Hawkesworth's publication of James Cook's and Joseph Banks's journals of the Endeavour voyage. The outcry was partially the result of the stark, empirical recording of the grisly details of the voyage, which were recorded purposefully without narrative intervention, unlike other travelogues, and which ignored the issue of divine providence altogether. But the outcry was also the result of reader indignation at the embedded implication that those wishing to read such grisly details are not so unlike the savages about which they read, a point which is strengthened by the recording of the savage acts of the European sailors against the natives. * Period: 1773. LaVopa, Anthony J. “HERDER'S PUBLIKUM: LANGUAGE, PRINT, AND SOCIABILITY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY GERMANY.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 1995 29(1): 5-24. Abstract: Jurgen Habermas's seminal work on the development of the modern public sphere, Strukturwandel der Offentlichkeit (1962), overlooks the influence of Johann Gottfried Herder. Herder's alternative vision of the modern public sphere is examined through analysis of the journal he kept at age 25 as he journeyed to and within France. His vision of a new literary elite restoring authenticity and integrity to German national culture is contrasted to that of Kant, who envisioned a reading public whose loyalties transcended cultural and political boundaries. * Period: 1769. Brugge, David M., ed. “EL DERROTERO DEL PADRE TOMAS IGNACIO LIZASOAIN: DESDE JANOS A MOQUI EN 1761 Transl/Info: [Father Tomas Ignacio Lizasoain's travel report: from Janos to Moqui in 1761].” Colonial Latin American Historical Review 1995 4(4): 465-475. Abstract: Introduces and transcribes the travel report written by the Jesuit missionary, Tomas Ignacio Lizasoain, who was named the visitador general for northwestern New Spain in 1761. Moller, Peter Ulf. “THE RUSSIANS AS SEEN BY THREE DANISH TRAVELLERS IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: JUEL, AEREBOE, VON HAVEN.” Culture & History [Norway] 1995 (14): 48-66. Abstract: Three Danish travelers to Russia from 1709 to 1743 portrayed Russian society on the threshold of modern civilization according to Western Enlightenment standards, yet cited barbaric Russian character traits as hindrances to progress. * Period: 1709-43. Campbell, Sue Ellen. “FEASTING IN THE WILDERNESS: THE LANGUAGE OF FOOD IN AMERICAN WILDERNESS NARRATIVES.” American Literary History 1994 6(1): 1-23. Abstract: References to food and eating in nonfiction narratives of wilderness experience in America reveal a range of cultural attitudes about the relationship between humans and nature. In the 19th century travelers tended either to armor themselves against the wilderness by carrying their European-style food with them or to immerse themselves in the wilderness by living off the land and reveling in primitivism. The Lewis and Clark expedition and Wyoming rancher Elinor Pruitt Stewart, however, demonstrated a middle ground, in which European ideas about eating were combined with available food and the knowledge of the native people they encountered. The same extremes and moderation appear in 20th-century narratives, though eating wild food is more often seen as an attempt to erase the gap between culture and nature. * Period: 19c-20c. Blair, Danny and Rannie, W. F. “"WADING TO PEMBINA": 1849 SPRING AND SUMMER WEATHER IN THE VALLEY OF THE RED RIVER OF THE NORTH AND SOME CLIMATIC IMPLICATIONS.” Great Plains Research 1994 4(1): 3-26. Abstract: Accounts of pioneers making their way west to California suggest that the year 1849 was considerably wetter and cooler than what is considered normal in the western United States. These weather patterns seem to have existed farther north, in Canada's Red River of the North as well. Although these patterns seem unusual in the late 20th century, they may have been quite common for the Plains of the United States and Canada in the period prior to 1850. * Period: 19c-20c. Walker, John. “"A LITTLE CORNER OF THE EMPIRE": BRITISH TRAVEL WRITERS IN THE ARGENTINE: AN OVERVIEW.” Inter-American Review of Bibliography 1994 44(2): 265-281. Download 0.71 Mb. Share with your friends:
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