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Focusing on prominent accounts by 10 distinguished women writers, who travelled to the Ottoman Empire (in particular, to modern-day Turkey, Egypt, and Cyprus) during the reign of Queen Victoria, this volume analyzes the multi-faceted, often ambivalent and conflicting ways their encounters with Otherness articulated itself to the masses.

Tappa imprescindibile all'interno del Grand Tour, sacrario che custodiva le reliquie dei tempi antichi, terra del pittoresco resa immortale dalle tele di Salvator Rosa: questa era l'Italia per i numerosi turisti britannici che, a conclusione delle guerre napoleoniche, iniziarono a riversarsi nel "bel paese", desiderosi di godere degli incanti del paesaggio e della mitezza straordinaria del clima. Questo studio si propone di mostrare come, per ...

Taking Italian scholar Lina Unali's work as its point of departure, this collection of new essays examines the "transnational turn” in cultural studies between Asia and the West. Drawing on literature, history, culture, film and media studies, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the constructs of "Asia” and "the West” and discuss their cultural collision.