The Alhambra at the Crossroads of History: Eastern and Western Visions in the Long Nineteenth Century (Eldem Edhem)(Pevná vazba)
EAN: 9781399524872
A flow of visitors in the nineteenth century turned the Alhambra into a touristic destination and a major trope of Orientalism, created by Western authors and artists, from Chateaubriand to Owen Jones and from Washington Irving to JeanLon Grme. Yet behind this Western infatuation lie scores of Oriental observers of the monument, as revealed by its visitors' book, kept since 1829: numerous but often silent visitors from the Maghreb; Ottoman diplomats and travellers, sometimes even more Orientalist than Europeans; Arabs from the Mashreq, growingly influenced by Arab nationalism and the ongoing Nahḍa. Based on these conflicting views revealed in the inscriptions they left, on a systematic examination of the contemporary press, and on the study of memoirs, travelogues, and photographs, the book uses the Alhambra to build a history of the complex and entangled relations between East
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