Balkan Departures

Wendy Bracewell is Senior Lecturer in History and Deputy Director at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London, and Director of the AHRC research project 'East Looks West' on East European travel writing in Europe. She has published extensively on the Balkans and on travel writing. Alex Drace-Francis is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of The Making of Modern Romanian Culture (2006) and of many articles on Romanian and Balkan history, historiography and literature.

• Chapter 1. Balkan Travel Writing: Points of Departure Wendy Bracewell Chapter 2. Hodoeporicon, Periegesis, Apodemia: Early Modern Greek Travel Writing on Europe Maria Kostaridou Chapter 3. Dinicu Golescu's Account Of My Travels (1826): Eurotopia as Manifesto Alex Drace-Francis Chapter 4. Writing Difference/Claiming General Validity: Jovan Ducic's Cities and Chimaeras and the West Vladimir Gvozden Chapter 5. Towards a Modernist Travel Culture Dean Duda Chapter 6. Getting to Know the Big Bad West? Images of Western Europe in Bulgarian Travel Writing of the Communist Era (1945-1985) Ludmilla Kostova Chapter 7. New Men, Old Europe: Being a Man in Balkan Travel Writing Wendy Bracewell Notes on Contributors Index

"...offers a set of unique perspectives on how travel writers have imagined, experienced and represented other people and other places. It shifts attention to the voices and agency of travellers from the Balkans and the ways in which they have experienced and described the sometimes strange and exotic West... Most fascinating the multi-faceted trajectories of expectations, perceptions and imageries which reverse the standard hegemonic gaze from West to East." * Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London