Discourses of Travel, Exploration, and European Power in Egypt from 1750 to 1956

Buch | Hardcover

249 Seiten

2023 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-9054-0 (ISBN)

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This collection focuses on representations of Egypt between 1750 and 1956. Napoleon’s Egyptian expedition of 1798-1801 failed in military terms, but succeeded in focusing Western attention on the country. The nation fascinated travellers because of its antiquity, its monuments, and its bazaars. In the nineteenth-century, the typical itinerary for travellers included Alexandria, Cairo, the Pyramids, and a journey by boat up the Nile to the temples of Luxor and others. Some of the essays included in this volume focus on fiction by writers like Samuel Johnson and Charles Dickens, or travel works by Florence Nightingale, Lucie Duff-Gordon, and Gérard de Nerval. Others analyse representations of Egypt by explorers, American ex-soldiers, French painters, British colonial administrators and sociologists, and a Russian doctor investigating the efficacy of Muhammad Ali’s reforms in relation to the plague. There is also a discussion of the changes in nineteenth-century Egyptian dress.

Valerie Kennedy has taught in Kenya, Morocco, and Turkey. Among her publications are Edward Said: A Critical Introduction (2000), and she is one of the three editors of Henrietta Liston’s Travels: The Turkish Journals 1812-1820 (2020) and co-editor of Liminal Dickens: Rites of Passage in His Work (with Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou). Other works include the monograph-length “Orientalism in the Victorian Era” in the Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Literature, and articles on works of literature, criticism/theory, and travel writing from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, ranging from Maria Edgeworth, Charles Dickens, Mary Kingsley, and Joseph Conrad to Edward Said, Graham Greene, Ahdaf Soueif, and Mohsin Hamid.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2023
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Afrika
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-5275-9054-2 / 1527590542
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-9054-0 / 9781527590540
Zustand	Neuware