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Travel Writing in Dutch and German, 1790-1930
This volume focuses on how travel writing contributed to cultural and intellectual exchange in and between the Dutch- and German-speaking regions from the 1790s to the twentieth-century interwar period. Drawing on a hitherto largely overlooked body of travelers whose work ranges across what is now Germany and Austria, the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking Belgium, the Dutch East Indies and Suriname, the contributors highlight the interrelations between the regional and the global and the role alterity plays in both spheres. They therefore offer a transnational and transcultural perspective on the ways in which the foreign was mediated to audiences back home. By combining a narrative perspective...
Geschichte erzählen
Das theoretische Feld zu fiktionalem und faktualem Erzählen ist in den letzten Jahren unübersichtlich geworden. Die Studie bietet eine kritische Analyse der wichtigsten Positionen. Historisches Erzählen diente im Zuge postmoderner Sprachzweifel oft als Beispiel für den prekären Wirklichkeitsbezug faktualer Erzählungen. Mit Blick auf das fiktionale Erzählen wurden anhand des postmodernen historischen Romans mit Metafiktion und Metahistoriografie Erzählverfahren betont, die sich von einem verlässlichen Wirklichkeitsbezug distanzieren. Die vorliegende Studie rückt neben diesen distanzierenden, illusionsstörenden Techniken wieder solche Erzählverfahren in den Blick, die Geschichte als ‚Ereignis‘ inszenieren. Historisches Erzählen kombiniert den Bezug auf eine vergangene Wirklichkeit immer mit dem Anspruch, eine in sich schlüssige Erzählung zu bilden. Anhand deutschsprachiger und niederländischsprachiger Geschichtserzählungen wird nachgezeichnet, wie sich diese grundlegende Dynamik zwischen glaubwürdigem Wirklichkeitsbezug und glaubwürdiger Erzählwirklichkeit im fiktionalen und im faktualen Zusammenhang je unterschiedlich entfaltet.
Travel Writing in Dutch and German, 1790-1930
This volume focuses on how travel writing contributed to cultural and intellectual exchange in and between the Dutch- and German-speaking regions from the 1790s to the twentieth-century interwar period. Drawing on a hitherto largely overlooked body of travelers whose work ranges across what is now Germany and Austria, the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking Belgium, the Dutch East Indies and Suriname, the contributors highlight the interrelations between the regional and the global and the role alterity plays in both spheres. They therefore offer a transnational and transcultural perspective on the ways in which the foreign was mediated to audiences back home. By combining a narrative perspective...
Handbook of Diachronic Narratology
This handbook brings together 42 contributions by leading narratologists devoted to the study of narrative devices in European literatures from antiquity to the present. Each entry examines the use of a specific narrative device in one or two national literatures across the ages, whether in successive or distant periods of time. Through the analysis of representative texts in a range of European languages, the authors compellingly trace the continuities and evolution of storytelling devices, as well as their culture-specific manifestations. In response to Monika Fludernik’s 2003 call for a "diachronization of narratology," this new handbook complements existing synchronic approaches that t...
Beyond Exceptionalism
While the economic involvement of early modern Germany in slavery and the slave trade is increasingly receiving attention, the direct participation of Germans in human trafficking remains a blind spot in historiography. This edited volume focuses on practices of enslavement taking place within German territories in the early modern period as well as on the people of African, Asian, and Native American descent caught up in them.
Travel and Space in Nineteenth-Century Europe
This detailed study of eighty European journeys examines the everyday spatial concerns of nineteenth-century travelers, with a focus on travelers from the Netherlands and North Sea region. From common soldiers in revolutionary Belgium to guests of the tsars in Russia, many of their travel accounts are here examined for the first time. Chapters analyze the different meanings of the home and homeliness; travelers’ desires for socializing but equally their intricate privacy norms; their intense attachment to cleanliness, order, space, and light; and the discomforts of cold, hot, wet, hard, and cramped spaces. Author Anna P.H. Geurts details what spatial characteristics travelers valued, what ...
French Political Travel Writing in the Interwar Years
This book studies travel writing produced by French authors between the two World Wars following visits to authoritarian regimes in Europe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It sheds new light on the phenomenon of French political travel in this period by considering the well-documented appeal of Soviet communism for French intellectuals alongside their interest in other radical regimes which have been much less studied: fascist Italy, the Iberian dictatorships and Nazi Germany. Through analyses of the travel writing produced as a result of such visits, the book gauges the appeal of these forms of authoritarianism for inter-war French intellectuals from a broad political spe...
Tourism in Natural and Agricultural Ecosystems in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
This book analyzes the roots of one of the main human activities that can be developed in natural and agricultural ecosystems: tourism. Attention to natural and agricultural ecosystems and their conservation has intensified in recent decades, responding to increasing social sensitivity to the environment, as also witnessed by Agenda 2030. The book explores the development of tourism in natural and agricultural ecosystems in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when some of its essential features derived from the practices of exploration, scientific study, business, healing practices, and also a desire for personal growth. This research is intended to open up international scholarly debat...
Women's Creativity since the Modern Movement (1918-2018)
Extensive work is a result of four year research within the international project Women's Creativity since the Modern Movement, and brings new insights into women in architecture, construction, design, urban planning and landscape architecture in Europe and in the rest of the world. It is divided into eight chapters that combine 116 articles on topics: A. Women’s education and training: National and international mappings; B. Women’s legacy and heritage: Protection, restoration and enhancement; C. Women in communication and professional networks; D. Women and cultural tourism; E. Women’s achievements and professional attainments: Moving boundaries; F. Women and sustainability: City and...
The Development of Product Liability
This examination of western-European legal systems demonstrates how tort law has adapted to meet new market conditions.
