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EBOOK Taken for Wonder:Nineteenth-Century Travel Accounts from Iran to Europe
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199829712
EAN: E264F38DEB
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Stron: 192
Data wydania: 2012
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Accounts of travel to far-flung places have deservedly gripped the imagination of        readers for centuries. Yet travelogues can reveal much more than the customs of a        foreign land; they can also serve as a window into the culture and concerns of their        place of origin. Drawing on a series of travel narratives by Iranian visitors to        Europe in the nineteenth century, Taken for Wonder illustrates how these writings        reflect the complicated political agendas of diplomats, merchants, kings, and others        during the Qajar Dynasty.Using texts that correspond to four monarchic reigns in        this period, the book shifts the traditional framework of analysis from the act of        travel to that of writing travel. Hayratnamah (The Book of Wonder), an Iranian        ambassador's account of his visit to the court of King George III, provides the        first example. Sohrabi's reading reveals a narrative calculated to reinforce the        grandeur and stability of the Qajars to its Persian readers rather than merely        recount the lifestyle of the English court. Similarly, the political motives at work        in Mirza Fattah Khan Garmrudi's accounts of his European journey are explored in        light of Britain's 1837 occupation of Iran. A subsequent chapter considers the ways        Nasir al-Din Shah, the longest reigning Qajar monarch, viewed his European        travelogues as a tool for domestic politics and international diplomacy. The study        concludes with two travel accounts by non-government officials, demonstrating how        the genre became a mode for critiquing the Qajar Dynasty and instigating political        reform at the close of the nineteenth century.

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