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In the 19th century, the metropolis became the soothsayer of
societies. Here, probabilities of progress could be perceived, felt
and smelt; here was the showcase of each nation's prime productions
and representations. Travellers took to the metropolis in order to
unravel the foreign society, in order to understand and learn about
social characteristics and future developments, about cultural
distinctions and commonalities, about banalities and extraordinary
events. Travel writers mapped the development of Europe's
metropolises and wrote for a large market using the form of a
highly popular and established genre. In travel writing, popular
sentiments, market-driven imaginations of the audience's interests,
and on-the-spot analysis of cultural and political conditions are
bound together in one account. This book surveys the history of
cultural perception in Western Europe from the Great Exhibition of
1851 to the National Socialists' party rallies in the Berlin of the
1930s. Travel writings are used as source material to enter the
intricate discourses on national stereotypes, the metropolis and on
the usage as well as the perception of authenticity.
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