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.

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Lut Missinne, Alison E. Martin, Beatrix van Dam

Part I

Foreign Neighbours

1. Identity Formation and the Gaze of the Other: Flanders and Belgium in German Travel Narratives, 1830-1850

Hubert Roland

2. Phlegmatic Aquatic Philistines: The Netherlands Described in Nineteenth-Century French and German Travelogues

Kim Andringa

3. Wandervögel in Wartime Flanders. Encountering Foreign Heritage and Imagining a German Future during the First World War

Robbert-Jan Adriaansen

Part II

Travel and New Ways of Circulating Knowledge

4. "Fresh Fields of Exploration": Cultures of Scientific Knowledge and Ida Pfeiffer’s Second Voyage round the World (1856)

Alison E. Martin

5. Hunting for Sources: Dreams and Realities of Nineteenth-Century Archival Travel

Herman Paul

6. "Nachrichten von Surinam": Representations of a Former Dutch Colony in German Travel Literature, 1790-1900

Carl Haarnack

7. Between Tourism, Ethnography, and Aesthetic Modernism: Louis Couperus in Africa

Carl Niekerk

Part III

Mediating Knowledge

8. Changing Places, Shifting Narratives: Nineteenth-Century Dutch Travellers in Germany

Arianne Baggerman and Rudolf Dekker

9. The Making of a Founding Father: Willem Jonckbloet in Search of Manuscripts and a Reputation

Johan Oosterman

10. Mobility and the Museum: Aesthetic and Commercial Influences on Travel in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany

Renata Schellenberg

11. Modern Travel: A Personal Affair

Anna P. H. Geurts

Contributors

Index