1st Edition
Travel Writing in Dutch and German, 1790-1930 Modernity, Regionality, Mobility
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Lut Missinne, Alison E. Martin, Beatrix van Dam
Part I
Foreign Neighbours
1. Identity Formation and the Gaze of the Other: Flanders and Belgium in German Travel Narratives, 1830-1850
Hubert Roland
2. Phlegmatic Aquatic Philistines: The Netherlands Described in Nineteenth-Century French and German Travelogues
Kim Andringa
3. Wandervögel in Wartime Flanders. Encountering Foreign Heritage and Imagining a German Future during the First World War
Robbert-Jan Adriaansen
Part II
Travel and New Ways of Circulating Knowledge
4. "Fresh Fields of Exploration": Cultures of Scientific Knowledge and Ida Pfeiffer’s Second Voyage round the World (1856)
Alison E. Martin
5. Hunting for Sources: Dreams and Realities of Nineteenth-Century Archival Travel
Herman Paul
6. "Nachrichten von Surinam": Representations of a Former Dutch Colony in German Travel Literature, 1790-1900
Carl Haarnack
7. Between Tourism, Ethnography, and Aesthetic Modernism: Louis Couperus in Africa
Carl Niekerk
Part III
Mediating Knowledge
8. Changing Places, Shifting Narratives: Nineteenth-Century Dutch Travellers in Germany
Arianne Baggerman and Rudolf Dekker
9. The Making of a Founding Father: Willem Jonckbloet in Search of Manuscripts and a Reputation
Johan Oosterman
10. Mobility and the Museum: Aesthetic and Commercial Influences on Travel in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany
Biography
Alison E. Martin is Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Reading, UK.
Lut Missinne is Professor of Modern Dutch Literature at the University of Münster, Germany.
Beatrix van Dam is Research Associate in Modern Dutch Literature at the University of Münster, Germany.
