Cross-Cultural Travel presents the proceedings of a major international conference on literature and travel held in November 2002 at the National University of Ireland, under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy. The contributors, including such leading scholars as Joep Leerssen and Luigi Monga, illustrate the remarkable scope and vitality of work currently undertaken in the field. Cross-Cultural Travel is a multidisciplinary crossroads where literature, cultural studies and history engage with a variety of other disciplines. Topics range from the sixteenth to the...

Provincializing the Worldly Citizen examines travel to Czechoslovakia by Yugoslav educators and students in the 1920s and 1930s in the context of educational modernization and national identity formation. It argues that -Slavic Cosmopolitanism- was an important element in educating the Yugoslav child and in the development of schooling practices in Yugoslavia. The book examines how notions of -Slavicness- circulated and were related to visions of the ideal Yugoslav, linking together these two concerns not merely to cross-fertilize Slavic studies, the history of education, and the field...