Time and Temporalities in European Travel Writing

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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