1st Edition

A Bibliography of East European Travel Writing on Europe

Edited By Alex Drace-Francis, Wendy Bracewell Copyright 2008
600 Pages
by Central European University Press

The bibliography volume of the three-volume East Looks West: East European Travel Writing in Europe collates travel writing published in book form by east Europeans travelling in Europe from ca. 1550 to 2000. It is intended as a fundamental research tool, collecting together travel writings within each national/linguistic tradition, and enabling comparative analysis of such material. It fills... Read more
Introduction, 1. Albanian, 2. Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and Serbo-Croatian, 3. Bulgarian, 4. Czech, 5. Greek, 6. Hebrew and Yiddish, 7. Hungarian, 8. Macedonian, 9. Romanian, 10. Polish, 11. Slovak, 12. Slovene, 13. Ukrainian, 14. Languages of International Circulation, 15. Travel Accounts of Europe: An Auxiliary Bibliography, Index of itineraries, Index of translations

Biography

Alex Drace-Francis is Associate Professor of Modern European Literary and Cultural History at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Romanian and Balkan social, cultural and literary history; on travel writing and circulation of ideas and images; and on European identity as a whole.