Henrietta Liston's Travels: The Turkish Journals, 1812-1820

Media type: E-Book

Title: Henrietta Liston's Travels : The Turkish Journals, 1812-1820

Contains: Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Map 1
Map 2
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 Journals
6. Locating Liston: Women’s Travel Writing and the Ottoman Empire
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
Chronology of the Life and Times of Henrietta Liston
Bibliography
Index

Contributor: Weisbrode, Kenneth [Author]; Hart, Patrick [Author]; Hart, Patrick [Contributor]; Kennedy, Valerie [Author]; Kennedy, Valerie [Contributor]; Mercan, F. Özden [Author]; Mercan, F. Özden [Contributor]; Petherbridge, Dora [Contributor]; Weisbrode, Kenneth [Contributor]

Published: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.); 19 colour illustrations 1 B/W tables

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781474467384

ISBN: 9781474467384

Identifier:

Keywords: Travelers' writings, British ; Islamic Studies ; HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century

Origination:

Footnote: In English

Description: An original perspective on the early 19th-century Ottoman EmpireThe first publication of Henrietta Liston’s Turkish journal and associated writingsA scholarly edition with extensive critical apparatus introducing an almost entirely unknown manuscript containing a significant, extended work of travel writing Based on archival research in the Liston Papers that sheds new light on the events described in the journal and the period in which it was written, the Listons’ life in Turkey and their circle of diplomats, travellers and writersMakes an important contribution to the recuperation of unpublished women’s travelogues and life writing, and to the study of diplomatic spouses and consortsHenrietta Liston’s Turkish journal is a significant yet virtually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.This edition features Liston’s journal alongside a selection of her other, shorter writings relating to her time in Turkey, including accounts of diplomatic incidents and personal experiences. It offers an innovative coupling of print publication, providing a modernised, accessible edition of Liston’s travel writing with supporting critical apparatus, alongside an online resource containing a complete set of digitised images of the original manuscripts and semi-diplomatic transcriptions.Find out moreWatch: 'Henrietta Liston: Approaching Constantinople, 1812-1820' on YoutubeExplore: 'The North American journeys of a diplomat's wife: The journals of Henrietta Liston, 1796–1801', the online resource from the National Library of Scotland"

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