Henrietta Liston's travels : the Turkish journals, 1812-1820 /
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, c...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Edinburgh scholarship online.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2660928 |
Table of 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.