Henrietta Liston's Travels: The Turkish Journals, 1812-1820

ISBN-13: 9781474467353 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 256 str.

Kenneth Weisbrode; Patrick Hart; Dora Petherbridge

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Henrietta Liston's Constantinople journal details her journey by sea from England to Istanbul and the diplomatic mission's Mediterranean stops at the time of the Napoleonic wars and reflects on the political situation of Europe, focusing in particular on the British and the Ottoman Empires.

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List of Illustrations & Maps; Acknowledgements; Part One: Critical Introduction: The Eye of a Stranger ; 1. ‘Out of your world’: Liston’s Turkish Travels, Patrick Hart; 2. Approaching Henrietta Liston: A Biographical Sketch, Dora Petherbridge; 3. The Diplomatic Context, Kenneth Weisbrode; 4. The Ottoman Social and Political Contexts, F. Özden Mercan; 5. Encountering Liston’s Turkish Writings, Valerie Kennedy; 6. Locating Liston: Women’s Travel Writing and the Ottoman Empire, Valerie Kennedy; 7. The Manuscripts: Composition, Revision, Dating, Readership, Patrick Hart; Part Two: Liston’s Turkish Writings; 1. The Turkish Journal, 1812-1814; 2. Selected Further Writings; Chronology of the Life and Times of Henrietta Liston; Bibliography; Index.