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This book is a collective effort to investigate and problematise notions of time and temporality in European travel writing from the late medieval period up to the late nineteenth century. It brings together nine researchers in European travel writing and covers a wide range of areas, travel genres, and languages, coherently integrated around the central theme of time and temporalities. Taken together, the contributions consider how temporal aspects evolve and change in regard to spatial, historical, and literary contexts. In a chapter-by-chapter account this volume thus offers various case studies that address the issue of temporality by showing, for example, how time is inscribed in landscape, how travellers' encounters with other temporalities informed other disciplines; it interrogates the idea of "cultural temporalities" in regard to a tension between past and future, passivity and progression; and focuses on how time is entangled in identity construction proper to travelogues.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Introduction * : Time, Temporality, and Travel Writing -- Points of Departure -- Social and Historical Time -- Time in Narration and Description -- The Traveller's Times and the Times of Others -- This Volume: An Overview -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 1: Time and Temporality in Travel Accounts from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries * : Mandeville, Tucher, Ecklin -- Outlines of Christian Spatiotemporality -- Mandeville's Travels

Hans Tucher's Pilgrimage to the Holy Land -- Daniel Ecklin's Reißbüchlin -- Effects of (De-)temporalisation in the Early Modern Period -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Like Moses on the Nile * : Competing Temporalities in Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre's Histoire générale des Antilles habitées par les François (1654/1667) -- Histories and Futurities -- Dislocations and Relocations -- Colonial Temporalities and the Others -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Signs of Travel and Memory * : The Case of the Wooden Slabs in Jukkasjärvi (1681-1736)

Aspiring Socialite Travelling North: Regnard -- The Huguenot Following Regnard: La Motraye -- The Scientist and the Inscriptions: Maupertuis -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Almanacs, Polytemporality, and Early Modern Travel -- The Almanac as a Travel Anti-Narrative -- Day to Day Polytemporality -- Historical Chronologies and Exotic Calendars -- Futures Present -- Almanacs and Travel Narratives -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Time Travel in the Pacific * : Maritime Exploration and Eighteenth-Century German Historiography

Exploration and Historiography -- The Göttingen Historians and Pacific Exploration -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Ruins and Revolutions * : Jacob Berggren on Classical Soil -- Between Antiquity and Modernity -- Ancient Myths and Modern Clocks -- Layered Temporalities -- Flight into Egypt -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Jerusalem in Every Soul * : Temporalities of Faith in Fredrika Bremer's and Harriet Martineau's Travel Narratives of Palestine -- Martineau's Vision of the Past -- Bremer's Allegorical Geography -- Temporalities of Faith: Kairos and Chronos

Nations and Orientalism -- The Hebrew People: The Model Nation -- Landscape, Time, Nationalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: Temporalities of the Anti-Modern: Angel Ganivet's Neo-Romantic Mapping of Western Civilisation -- Angel Ganivet, His Work and His Time -- Conflicting Time Conceptualisations -- Pan-Latin Chronopolitics -- On the Relativity of Progress -- On Coevalness: Was Ganivet a Precursor of Southern Epistemologies? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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