Visions of Persia : Mapping the Travels of Adam Olearius Paperback / softback
by Elio Brancaforte
Part of the Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature series
Paperback / softback
Description
This work examines the travel account of a German baroque author who journeyed in search of silk from Northern Germany, through Muscovy, to the court of Shah Safi in Isfahan. Adam Olearius introduced Persian literature, history, and arts to the German-speaking public; his frank appraisal of Persian customs foreshadows the enlightened spirit of the eighteenth century (influencing Montesquieu’s Persian Letters as well as Goethe’s West-Eastern Divan) and prepares the way for German Romanticism’s infatuation with Persian poetry. Elio Brancaforte focuses on the visual and discursive nexus uniting Olearius’s text with the numerous engravings that supplement the book.
The emphasis falls on contextualized readings of Olearius’s decorative frontispieces and his new and improved map of Persia and the Caspian Sea, as expressions of early modern subjectivity.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages, 46 halftones, 7 line drawings, 13 maps
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:15/01/2004
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- ISBN:9780674012547
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages, 46 halftones, 7 line drawings, 13 maps
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:15/01/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780674012547
