The question of French literature’s portrayal of the environment has been widely debated in the ecocriticism field, with scholars such as Douglas Boudreau and Marnie Sullivan arguing that ecocriticism is predominately focused on literature written in English. In order to further…
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This dissertation considers two literary texts in dialogue form: the anonymous Viaje de Turquía written in the 1550's about a Spaniard's experiences as an ex-captive of the Turks and his travels back to Spain through Greece and Italy; and Pedro de Quiroga's c. 1565 Coloquios de …
This study draws on a historical perspective on the evolution of a certain form that I call the "Istanbul canon," in which the city has always been associated with loss. Tracing the genealogy of loss in the literary representations of Istanbul by both western and local writers i…
This study reveals the relationship of the wager journey to early modern English literary, festive, and performance cultures, from the Elizabethan period to the Interregnum. The wager journey and the literature associated with it variously belonged to the worlds of the court, th…
This study investigated the main motif of Ibn Battuta's travel account, the Rihla. The focus of the study, therefore, was on the Rihla itself, which has been regarded as an important source of medieval Islamic history and culture as well as of the beliefs and rituals of people o…
This dissertation seeks to show that Pero Tafur's Andanças é viajes, far from being a mere geographical and historical compendium, the aspect most emphasized by his prior critics, is, in fact, the record of a man pointedly seeking greater recognition and social standing through …
This thesis, “Exotic Journeys: Exploring the Erotics of American Travel Literature, 1840–1930,” focuses on the interrelations between eroticisation, sexuality, race and travel discourse as they converge in American travel literature. Defining travel literature as a hybrid of the…
This dissertation examines the structural and literary devices women travel and travel-adventure writers at the beginning of the eighteenth century developed to reflect woman's search for personal identity. Penelope Aubin and Eliza Haywood adopted and adapted the genre form of t…
This dissertation is a study of Edith Wharton's travel writing as the embodiment of her connoisseurship, a reflection of her visual sensibility, retentive memory, and imaginative powers. In reconstituting what Blake Nevius calls the "aesthetic spectra" in her travel texts, she e…
Even in the seventeenth century, the English anticipated becoming an imperial power. Without specific geographic intentions, they attempted to mold themselves into potent conquerors. These ambitions led them to regard other societies according to whether they were an imperial po…
This dissertation looks at images of Arabs produced by and for Americans, and it examines the meanings these images had for those who produced and consumed them. The research begins in 1850, when American images of Arabs, typically dervishes, dancers, giants, and acrobats, appea…
This work examines the published travel accounts of fifty-one American women who ventured to Palestine in the nineteenth century. Biographical information is contained within, yet the brunt of the work examines the commonalties of their published accounts such as their portrayal…
Taking sterotypical notions of the Orient (here understood as the Arab/Islamic world) as departure point, this dissertation examines the question of change in the context of cross-cultural representations. The dissertation focuses in particular on French cultural representations…
My study takes as its theme the efforts of a representative body of British and American modernist prose writers to grapple with their places in history in the context of their collective sense of an ending, desired or otherwise. In this period of crisis, world wars, and the per…
My dissertation, Signs taken for Wonder: Nineteenth Century Persian Travel Literature to Europe is a re-examination of the significance of Persian travel narratives to Europe for Qajar Iran (1796-1925). Through textual and contextual analysis of Qajar travel accounts to Europe, …
This dissertation examines the travelogues produced by Russians who went to Iran in the 19th and early 20th centuries (ending in 1917). More than 120 Russian travelers published books and articles about their journeys; the number of these travelogues exceeds 200. With very few e…
This dissertation is a modest attempt at examining the literary and historical back-grounds pertaining to the evolution of the travel genre in Arabic literature. The study's main objective is to pursue the literary, historical, and sociopolitical proofs that the travel genre in …
A diachronic perspective spanning from the ninth to the eighteenth centuries, this comparative and interdisciplinary study analyzes the literary images of the river Nile that appear in the most significant texts of Arabic travel and geographical literature. Among the numerous ge…