Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 (Re)translating the West: Humboldt, Habermas, and Intercultural Dialogue
- 2 Friedrich Schlegel's Writings on India: Reimagining Germany as Europe's True Oriental Self
- 3 Germany's Local Orientalisms
- 4 Tales from the Oriental Borderlands: On the Making and Uses of Colonial Algiers in Germanophone Travel Writing from the Maghreb around 1840
- 5 The Jew, the Turk, and the Indian: Figurations of the Oriental in the German-Speaking World
- 6 M. C. Sprengel's Writings on India: A Disenchanted and Forgotten Orientalism of the Late Eighteenth Century
- 7 Occident and Orient in Narratives of Exile: The Case of Willy Haas's Indian Exile Writings
- 8 Distant Neighbors: Uses of Orientalism in the Late Nineteenth-Century Austro-Hungarian Empire
- 9 Modes of Orientalism in Hungarian Letters and Learning of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- 10 Where the Orient Ends? Orientalism and Its Function for Imperial Rule in the Russian Empire
- 11 Noncolonial Orientalism? Czech Travel Writing on Africa and Asia around 1918
- 12 Oriental Sexuality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century Travelogues
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 (Re)translating the West: Humboldt, Habermas, and Intercultural Dialogue
- 2 Friedrich Schlegel's Writings on India: Reimagining Germany as Europe's True Oriental Self
- 3 Germany's Local Orientalisms
- 4 Tales from the Oriental Borderlands: On the Making and Uses of Colonial Algiers in Germanophone Travel Writing from the Maghreb around 1840
- 5 The Jew, the Turk, and the Indian: Figurations of the Oriental in the German-Speaking World
- 6 M. C. Sprengel's Writings on India: A Disenchanted and Forgotten Orientalism of the Late Eighteenth Century
- 7 Occident and Orient in Narratives of Exile: The Case of Willy Haas's Indian Exile Writings
- 8 Distant Neighbors: Uses of Orientalism in the Late Nineteenth-Century Austro-Hungarian Empire
- 9 Modes of Orientalism in Hungarian Letters and Learning of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- 10 Where the Orient Ends? Orientalism and Its Function for Imperial Rule in the Russian Empire
- 11 Noncolonial Orientalism? Czech Travel Writing on Africa and Asia around 1918
- 12 Oriental Sexuality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century Travelogues
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
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- Deploying Orientalism in Culture and HistoryFrom Germany to Central and Eastern Europe, pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013