Time and Temporalities in European Travel Writing

243 Pages·2020·10.216 MB·English

by  Paula Henrikson, Christina Kullberg

Time and Temporalities in European
Travel Writing
This book is a collective effort to investigate and problematise notions of
time and temporality in European travel writing from the late medieval
period up to the late nineteenth century. It brings together nine research-
ers in European travel writing and covers a wide range of areas, travel
genres, and languages, coherently integrated around the central theme of
time and temporalities. Taken together, the contributions consider how
temporal aspects evolve and change in regard to spatial, historical, and
literary contexts. In a chapter-by-chapter account this volume thus offers
various case studies that address the issue of temporality by showing, for
example, how time is inscribed in landscape, how travellers’ encounters
with other temporalities informed other disciplines; it interrogates the
idea of “cultural temporalities” in regard to a tension between past and
future, passivity and progression; and focuses on how time is entangled
in identity construction proper to travelogues.
Paula Henrikson is professor of Literature at Uppsala University. Her
current research concerns the long nineteenth century with a special
focus on Romantic classicism and philhellenism in Sweden. Previously,
she has published on Romantic drama, textual criticism, and the history
of philology in Sweden, and with Christian Janss she was the co-editor of
Geschichte der Edition in Skandinavien (2013).
Christina Kullberg is professor of French at Uppsala University, special-
ised in contemporary Caribbean literature and early modern travel writ-
ing. Her publications include The Poetics of Ethnography in Martinican
Narratives (2013) and Lire l’Histoire générale des Antilles de J.-B. Du
Tertre: Exotisme et établissement français aux Îles (2020). Currently, she
is completing a book entitled Entangled Voices in French Early Modern
Travel Writing to the Caribbean.
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French Political Travel Writing in the Interwar Years
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Javier Uriarte
Time and Temporalities in European Travel Writing
Paula Henrikson and Christina Kullberg
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Time and Temporalities in
European Travel Writing
Edited By
Paula Henrikson
and Christina Kullberg
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Contents
List of figures vii
List of contributors viii
Introduction: Time, Temporality, and Travel Writing 1
PAULA HENRIKSON AND CHRISTINA KULLBERG
1 Time and Temporality in Travel Accounts from the
Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries: Mandeville,
Tucher, Ecklin 25
MAXIMILIAN BENZ AND CHRISTIAN KIENING
2 Like Moses on the Nile: Competing Temporalities
in Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre’s Histoire générale des
Antilles habitées par les François (1654/1667) 52
CHRISTINA KULLBERG
3 Signs of Travel and Memory: The Case of the
Wooden Slabs in Jukkasjärvi (1681–1736) 75
SYLVIE REQUEMORA-GROS
4 Almanacs, Polytemporality, and Early
Modern Travel 101
MARGARET R. HUNT
5 Time Travel in the Pacific: Maritime Exploration
and Eighteenth-Century German Historiography 132
SÜNNE JUTERCZENKA
6 Ruins and Revolutions: Jacob Berggren
on Classical Soil 158
PAULA HENRIKSON
vi Contents
7 Jerusalem in Every Soul: Temporalities of Faith
in Fredrika Bremer’s and Harriet Martineau’s
Travel Narratives of Palestine 182
ANNA BOHLIN
8 Temporalities of the Anti-Modern: Angel Ganivet’s
Neo-Romantic Mapping of Western Civilisation 210
PETER STADIUS
Index 228
Figures
3.1 Wooden slab by Regnard, Jukkasjärvi church. Photo:
Sylvie Requemora-Gros 75
3.2 Wooden slab attributed by the author to La Motraye,
Jukkasjärvi church. Photo: Sylvie Requemora-Gros 84
3.3 Wooden slab signed Gyllengrip, Jukkasjärvi church.
Photo: Sylvie Requemora-Gros 87
3.4 Wooden slab signed Johannes Wegelius, Jukkasjärvi
church. Photo: Sylvie Requemora-Gros 87
3.5 The Käymäjärvi inscription, Antoine François Prévost
d’Exiles, Histoire générale des voyages, ou nouvelle
collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et
par terre (1777), vol. 15. gallica.bnrf.fr/Bibliothèque
Nationale de France, public domain 91
5.1 Johann Joachim Schwabe, Allgemeine Historie der
Reisen zu Wasser und zu Lande (1747–74), vol. 1,
frontispiece. Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg,
public domain 132
Contributors
Maximilian Benz is Heisenberg-Professor for German Literature at the
University of Bielefeld. He studied German and Classical Philology at
the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, earned his doctorate
(2012) at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin on the story of trips to
the afterlife, and habilitated (2019) at the University of Zurich on the
poetic structure and literary-historical position of Rudolf von Ems’
works.
Anna Bohlin is associate professor of Comparative Literature at Nordic
Literature at the University of Bergen. Her current research project is
Enchanting Nations: Commodity Market, Folklore, and Nationalism
in Scandinavian Literature 1830–1850. She is the editor of the cross-
disciplinary anthology The Production of Loss: Nineteenth-Century
Nationalisms and Emotions in the Baltic Sea Region (forthcoming),
and the co-editor of the third volume, covering the long nineteenth cen-
tury, of Tracing the Jerusalem Code: Christian Cultures in Scandinavia
(2020).
Paula Henrikson is professor of Literature at Uppsala University. Her
current research concerns the long nineteenth century with a special
focus on Romantic classicism and philhellenism in Sweden. Previously,
she has published on Romantic drama, textual criticism, and the his-
tory of philology in Sweden, and with Christian Janss she was the co-
editor of Geschichte der Edition in Skandinavien (2013).
Margaret R. Hunt is professor of History at Uppsala University. She is
the author of The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender and the Family
in England 1680–1780 (1996) and Women in Eighteenth-century
Europe (2010), and co-author of The English East India Company at
the Height of Mughal Expansion: A Soldier’s Diary of the 1689 Siege
of Bombay, with Related Documents (2016), along with numerous
articles and book chapters on gender and the law, travel, race, sexual-
ity, and military and maritime history.
Contributors ix
Sünne Juterczenka teaches early modern history at the University of
Göttingen. Her research interests include cultural and religious encoun-
ters, travel and exploration, maritime history, and the history of early
modern media. Her first book was a study on seventeenth-century
Quaker missionary journeys to Europe (Über Gott und die Welt, 2008);
her current work focuses on the media coverage of Pacific exploration
during the eighteenth century.
Christian Kiening is professor of German literature at the University
of Zurich. He studied German Philology, History, and Philosophy at
the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, earned his doctor-
ate 1989, and habilitated in 1995/96. He is co-editor of Deutsche
Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte,
and from 2005 to 2017 he was director of the National Competence
Centre of Research “Mediality”.
Christina Kullberg is professor of French at Uppsala University, special-
ised in contemporary Caribbean literature and early modern travel
writing. Her publications include The Poetics of Ethnography in
Martinican Narratives (2013) and Lire L'Histoire générale des Antilles
de J.-B. Du Tertre: Exotisme et établissement français aux Îles (2020).
Currently, she is completing a book entitled Entangled Voices in French
Early Modern Travel Writing to the Caribbean.
Sylvie Requemora-Gros is professor of French Literature at Aix-Marseille
University and member of the research group CIELAM, specialising on
the seventeenth century. Her research has explored the intersections
between travel writing and other genres in her monograph Voguer vers
la modernité: Le voyage à travers les genres au XVIIe siècle (2012)
and in edited volumes such as Voyages, rencontres, échanges au XVIIe
siècle (2017), Image et Voyage, de la Méditerranée aux Indes (2012),
and Voyage et théâtre de l’Antiquité au XIXe siècle (2011). She is the
director of Centre de Recherches sur la Littérature des Voyages (Travel
Literature Research Centre, www.crlv.org).
Peter Stadius holds a PhD in History and is since 2015 professor in Nordic
Studies and Research Director of the Centre for Nordic Studies at the
University of Helsinki. Stadius’ research includes studies on the mental
mapping of North and South in Europe from a historical perspective,
specialising in imagological relations between Scandinavia and Latin
Europe.