The Alhambra at the Crossroads of History

Eastern and Western Visions in the Long Nineteenth Century

Edhem Eldem (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

384 Seiten

2024
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-2487-2 (ISBN)

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A growing flow of visitors in the 19th century turned the Alhambra into a touristic destination and a major trope of Orientalism, created by Western authors and artists from Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand to Owen Jones and from Washington Irving to Jean-Leon Gerome. Yet behind this Western infatuation lie scores of 'Oriental' observers of the monument, as revealed by its visitors' book, kept since 1829. This book uses this untapped source to analyse the perceptions of the Alhambra by multiple actors, including Westerners, Spaniards, Maghrebines, Ottoman Turks, Christian Arabs and Muslim Arabs from the Mashreq. In doing so, it reveals the existence of significant variations in both Western and Oriental perceptions of the monument, from 'Oriental Orientalism' to Arab nationalism. Examining the contemporary press, memoirs, travelogues and photographs as well as the visitors' book it uses the Alhambra to build a history of the complex and entangled relations between East and West, North and South, Islam and Christianity, centre and periphery during the heyday of Orientalism and Western hegemony.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.01.2024
Zusatzinfo	23 black and white illustrations, 32 colour illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-3995-2487-9 / 1399524879
ISBN-13	978-1-3995-2487-2 / 9781399524872
Zustand	Neuware