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Author Liston, Henrietta, Lady, 1751-1828, author.

Title Henrietta Liston's travels : the Turkish journals, 1812-1820 / edited by Patrick Hart, Valerie Kennedy and Dora Petherbridge ; associate editor, F. Özden Mercan
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 246 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Series Edinburgh scholarship online
Edinburgh scholarship online
Contents Part One. Critical Introduction -- The Eye of a Stranger. 1. 'Out of your world' : Liston's Turkish Travels -- 2. Approaching Henrietta Liston : A Biographical Sketch -- 3. The Diplomatic Context -- 4. The Ottoman Social and Political Contexts -- 5. Encountering Liston's Turkish Writings. Henrietta Liston and the Discourses of Travel Writing -- Henrietta Liston and British-Ottoman Relations -- Orientalism and the Picturesque -- 6. Locating Liston : Women's Travel Writing and the Ottoman Empire. Positions of Privilege -- Thematic Continuities -- Stylistic Continuities -- Liston's Distinctive Voice -- 7. The Manuscripts : Composition, Revision, Dating, Readership -- Part Two. Liston's Turkish Writings -- A Note on the Text -- The Turkish Journal, 1812-14 -- Selected Further Writings. 1. Letter from Henrietta Liston to Dick Ramage, 6 March 1813 -- 2. Further Writings on Constantinople, 1814-15. The Fire at Pera -- The Visit to the Harem of the Collector of the Customs -- The Funerals of the Turks, Greeks and Armenians -- The Death of Doctor Lorenzo -- 3. Aegean Travels, 1815 -- 4. The Return to Constantinople, 1817 -- 5. Departure from Constantinople, 1820 -- Chronology of the Life and Times of Henrietta Liston
Summary Henrietta Liston's Turkish journal is a significant yet virtually unknown work of women's travel writing. As the wife of the British Ambassador to the Sublime Porte, Liston had privileged access to the Ottoman elite and diplomatic corps. Her journal reflects on British-Ottoman relations, combining Orientalist perspectives with a human-centred version of the picturesque. It offers astute commentaries on places, people and events -- including a plague-ridden Constantinople, a visit to the harem of the Grand Vizier's deputy, the presentation of ambassadors in the Seraglio and the departure of pilgrims on the hajj.-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Patrick Hart is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Literature at Bilkent University, Ankara. He is founder and editor of the Journal of the Northern Renaissance. Valerie Kennedy is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Literature at Bilkent University, Ankara. She is author of Edward Said: A Critical Introduction (Polity, 2000). Dora Petherbridge is Curator of North American and Commonwealth Collections at the National Library of Scotland
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Subject Liston, Henrietta, Lady, 1751-1828 -- Diaries
Liston, Henrietta, Lady, 1751-1828 -- Travel -- Turkey
SUBJECT Liston, Henrietta, Lady, 1751-1828 fast
Subject Travelers' writings, British.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Diaries & Journals.
Travel
Travelers' writings, British
SUBJECT Turkey -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138788
Subject Turkey
Genre/Form diaries.
Diaries
Diaries.
Journaux intimes.
Form Electronic book
Author Hart, Patrick, 1975- editor.
Kennedy, Valerie, editor.
Petherbridge, Dora, editor
ISBN 9781474467384
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1474467377
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