Table of Contents

Foreword, W Bracewell, A Drace-Francis; 1. Towards a natural history of east European travel writing; A Drace-Francis; 2. The travel narrative as a (literary) genre; D Chirico; 3. The limits of Europe in east European travel writing, W Bracewell; 4. 'They are laughing at us': Hungarian travellers and early modern European identity, G Murdock; 5. Travels through the Slav world, W Bracewell; 6. The Odyssey of national discovery: Hungarians in Hungary and abroad, 1750-1850, I V Popova-Nowak; 7. European identity and Romantic irony: Juliusz Slowacki's journey to Greece, M Kalinowska; 8. Metaphor and monumentality: The travels of Nicolae Iorga, A Mihalache; 9. Oh, to be a European! What Rastko Petrović learnt in Africa, Z Milutinović; 10. Excursions into national specificity and European identity: Mihail Sebastian's interwar travel reportage, D Georgescu; 11. The Cold-War traveller's gaze: Jan Lenica's 1954 sketchbook of London, K Murawska-Muthesius; 12. Images of the West in Bulgarian travel writing during socialism (1945-1989), R Guentcheva; Notes on contributors; Index

About the Author

Dr. Wendy Bracewell is Senior Lecturer in History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.Dr. Alex Drace-Francis is lecturer in Modern European History, School of History, University of Liverpool.