Travel Writing in Dutch and German, 1790-1930

Alison E. Martin is Lecturer in German Studies at the University of Reading, UK. Lut Missinne is Professor of Modern Dutch Literature at the University of Münster, Germany.Beatrix van Dam is Research Associate in Modern Dutch Literature at the University of Münster, Germany.

• ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroductionLut Missinne, Alison E. Martin, Beatrix van DamPart IForeign Neighbours1. Identity Formation and the Gaze of the Other: Flanders and Belgium in German Travel Narratives, 1830-1850Hubert Roland2. Phlegmatic Aquatic Philistines: The Netherlands Described in Nineteenth-Century French and German TraveloguesKim Andringa3. Wandervögel in Wartime Flanders. Encountering Foreign Heritage and Imagining a German Future during the First World WarRobbert-Jan AdriaansenPart IITravel and New Ways of Circulating Knowledge4. "Fresh Fields of Exploration": Cultures of Scientific Knowledge and Ida Pfeiffer’s Second Voyage round the World (1856)Alison E. Martin5. Hunting for Sources: Dreams and Realities of Nineteenth-Century Archival TravelHerman Paul6. "Nachrichten von Surinam": Representations of a Former Dutch Colony in German Travel Literature, 1790-1900Carl Haarnack7. Between Tourism, Ethnography, and Aesthetic Modernism: Louis Couperus in AfricaCarl NiekerkPart IIIMediating Knowledge8. Changing Places, Shifting Narratives: Nineteenth-Century Dutch Travellers in GermanyArianne Baggerman and Rudolf Dekker9. The Making of a Founding Father: Willem Jonckbloet in Search of Manuscripts and a ReputationJohan Oosterman10. Mobility and the Museum: Aesthetic and Commercial Influences on Travel in Early Nineteenth-Century GermanyRenata Schellenberg11. Modern Travel: A Personal AffairAnna P. H. GeurtsContributorsIndex