Henrietta Liston's travels : the Turkish journals, 1812-1820 /: the Turkish journals, 1812-1820. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Patrick Hart, Valerie Kennedy and Dora Petherbridge ; associate editor, F. Özden Mercan.
• Authors: Lady, Liston, Henrietta, 1751-1828
• Editors: Hart, Patrick, 1975-; Kennedy, Valerie; Petherbridge, Dora
• Contents: Part One. Critical Introduction -- The Eye of a Stranger. 1. 'Out of your world' : Liston's Turkish Travels -- 2. Approaching Henrietta Liston : A Biographical Sketch -- 3. The Diplomatic Context -- 4. The Ottoman Social and Political Contexts -- 5. Encountering Liston's Turkish Writings. Henrietta Liston and the Discourses of Travel Writing -- Henrietta Liston and British-Ottoman Relations -- Orientalism and the Picturesque -- 6. Locating Liston : Women's Travel Writing and the Ottoman Empire. Positions of Privilege -- Thematic Continuities -- Stylistic Continuities -- Liston's Distinctive Voice -- 7. The Manuscripts : Composition, Revision, Dating, Readership -- Part Two. Liston's Turkish Writings -- A Note on the Text -- The Turkish Journal, 1812-14 -- Selected Further Writings. 1. Letter from Henrietta Liston to Dick Ramage, 6 March 1813 -- 2. Further Writings on Constantinople, 1814-15. The Fire at Pera -- The Visit to the Harem of the Collector of the Customs -- The Funerals of the Turks, Greeks and Armenians -- The Death of Doctor Lorenzo -- 3. Aegean Travels, 1815 -- 4. The Return to Constantinople, 1817 -- 5. Departure from Constantinople, 1820 -- Chronology of the Life and Times of Henrietta Liston.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (vii, 246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 915.61041092; Travelers' writings, British; LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Diaries & Journals; Travel; Travelers' writings, British; Turkey -- Description and travel; Turkey; Electronic books; Diary; Electronic books; diaries; Diaries; Diaries; Journaux intimes; Diaries; Travel -- Turkey
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474467384; 1474467385; 9781474467377; 1474467377; 1474491308; 9781474491303
• Related ISBNs: 9781474467353; 9781474467360
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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