Cross-cultural travel : papers from the Royal Irish Academy Symposium on Literature and Travel, National University of Ireland, Galway, November 2002 / edited by Jane Conroy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Between skin and horizon -- Translating the journey: a literary perspective on truth in cartography -- Travellers' accounts, historians and ambassadors in the sixteenth century -- Travel, identity, and cultural difference, 1580-1700 -- Cabinet and collection in the seventeenth-century 'recit de voyage en Orient' -- 'A tour no man will attempt twice': travelling in Spain in the eighteenth century -- 'Le plaisir d'aller sans savoir ou...': Rousseau on travel -- German travel writing and the rhetoric of sensibility: Karl Philipp Moritz's Reisen eines Deutschen in England im Jahr 1782 -- Destination modernity: Sophie La Roche's trips through Switzerland (1784), France (1785) and Germany (1792) -- Enlightenment travel accounts: Constantin de Volney -- Europe discovers one of its islands: Sardinia -- The accidental tourist: Theobald Wolfe Tone's secret mission to Paris, 1796 -- Changing perspectives: French travellers in Ireland, 1785-1835 -- A French Catholic liberal view of Ireland in 1830: Charles de Montalembert's Journal intime -- 'The Niobe of Nations!' - a bio-bibliographical survey of German travellers in Ireland, 1806-1850 -- Hero worship: German political 'pilgrims' pay tribute to O'Connell and Co -- Lady Morgan's travel writing on Italy: a novel approach -- Writing the route: Heinrich Heine's Die Harzreise (1826) -- George Sand's Majorcan travel diary: the poetics of movement in Un Hiver a Majorque -- Shadows over the Rhine: Hugo's reading of Virgil's First Eclogue -- Travel as impetus for poetic innovation and experimentation - the case of modern French poetry -- Ernest Renan and the rediscovery of the Phoenicians -- '[Paris] s'offre a vos regards et vous sollicite': pleasure in the parks - women, travel guides, and nineteenth-century Paris -- Travel as mission: the building of the Suez Canal, as seen by Narcisse Berchere -- From the exotic Other to the unconscious: Otherness in the work of Odilon Redon -- The images, myths and reality of the modernized Western world in Yiddish travel literature between 1870 and 1914 -- How real is real? Karl May's virtual travels -- Semiologies of travel: nostalgies du symbole -- Italo Svevo (commercial) traveller -- Hidden journeys: gender, genre and twentieth-century travel literature in French -- Reconstructing elsewhere: travel and the representation of l'Indochine francaise -- Travels to the Metropolis: traditions of reports on European cities and their climax in the period of New Sobriety -- Manuel Grana in Ireland 1922: a Spanish perspective on Irish Independence and Civil War -- A political tourist visits the future; Ernst Toller's Russian and American travels near the end of the Weimar Republic -- Exiles, travellers and tourists: travel-writing in post-war Spain -- Postcards from Russia: the vision of Russia in Louis-Ferdinand Celine's early pamphlets -- Presenting the past: Ingeborg Bachmann's literary metropolis -- Cuckoo's eggs in the bureaucratic nest: Brigitte Reimann's Siberia diaries -- 'L'Orient m'est indifferent': Roland Barthes' Japan -- Theory into ecriture: travel literature encounters touring cultures -- German experts in Africa: constructions of self and other in Joseph von Westphalen's Im diplomatischen Dienst and Jurgen Schimanek's Negerweiss -- The traveller as flaneur: modernity, flanerie and Bruce Chatwin's travelogues -- Travelling borderline territories: Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis by Christoph Ransmayr -- German travel literature about Ireland: the saga continues -- A lost world: Ireland in contemporary German travel writing -- 'Orienting' the text: Eastern influences in the fiction of Isabel Allende -- Tabucchi's Portugal -- Mobility and subjectivity in Maria Rosa Cutrufelli's Il paese dei figli perduti -- The loneliness of the long-distance narrator: the inscription of travel in Proust and W. G. Sebald -- Literature, travel and vertigo -- Notes on contributors -- Index of names and places.

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