1st Edition
French Travel Writing in the Ottoman Empire Marseilles to Constantinople, 1650-1700
By Michele Longino
Copyright 2015
204 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
13 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Examining the history of the French experience of the Ottoman world and Turkey, this comparative study visits the accounts of early modern travelers for the insights they bring to the field of travel writing. The journals of contemporaries Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Jean Thévenot, Laurent D’Arvieux, Guillaume-Joseph Grelot, Jean Chardin, and Antoine Galland reveal a rich corpus of political,... Read more
Introduction 1. The Jeweler / Voyeur. Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605-1689) 2. The Tourist / Ethnographer. Jean Thévenot (1633-1667) 3. The Arriviste / Envoy. Laurent D’Arvieux (1635-1702) 4. The Conquering Artist. Guillaume-Joseph Grelot (1638 - ?) 5. The English Frenchman.. Jean Chardin (1643-1712) 6. The Reluctant Diarist. Antoine Galland (1646-1715) Conclusion
Biography
Michele Longino is Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University, USA.
"This is an interesting study of six of the most important French travellers to the Ottoman Empire, and, more especially, Constantinople, in the seventeenth century. Longino’s analysis helps us to understand the French national background against which the travellers operated, their character, their motivations and their prejudices, all of which are valuable contributions to our knowledge. In addition... her analyses of the travel journals offer a richly human [...] picture of the expatriate French community in Turkey of that period, and to a lesser extent, of wider Ottoman society... Longino’s work is an important contribution to our understanding of why seventeenth-century French travel writers of the Ottoman Empire wrote as they did." - Paul Auchterlonie, University of Exeter, UK
