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Taken for Wonder - Nineteenth Century Travel Accounts from Iran to Europe (Hardcover, New)
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Taken for Wonder - Nineteenth Century Travel Accounts from Iran to Europe (Hardcover, New)
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Taken for Wonder focuses on nineteenth century travelogues authored
by Iranians in Europe and argues for a methodological shift from
the study of travel to that of writing travel. This shift allows
for a different interpretive framework that moves away from an
over-emphasis on the destinations of travel (particularly in cases
where the destination, like Europe, signifies larger meanings such
as modernity) and which historicizes the travelogue itself as a
rhetorical text in the service of its origin's concerns and
developments. Within this framework, this book demonstrates the
ways in which travel writings to Europe were used to position Qajar
Iran (1917-1925) within a global context, i.e. narration of travel
to Europe was also narrating the power of the Qajar court even when
political events were tipped against it; and relatedly, how both
travel to Europe and also translations of travel narratives into
Persian should be included in our understanding of the importance
of geography and mapping to the Qajars, especially during the
latter half of the nineteenth century. In this process, it also
re-examines the notion that Iranian modernity was the chief outcome
of Iranians travelling in and writing about Europe.
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