Visualizing Egypt : European travel, book publishing, and the marketing of the East in the nineteenth century /

Visualizing Egypt : European travel, book publishing, and the marketing of the East in the nineteenth century /

"Bonaparte's short-lived 1798 campaign in Egypt, new possibilities of travel, and improvements in printing technology in nineteenth-century France and Britain, a new publishing business dedicated to the production of albums and travel accounts picturing Muslim Egypt and Islamic architectur...

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Main Author: Banas, Paulina (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2024.

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Travelers > Egypt > History > 19th century.
Travelers' writings, British > History and criticism.
Travelers' writings, French > History and criticism.
Illustrated books > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Illustrated books > France > History > 19th century.
Egypt > Description and travel.
Egypt > In art.

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Call Number: DT49.98 .B36

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Table of Contents:
  • Making it "Modern" : The Publisher's Perspective and the Marketing of the Nile Valley
  • Observing, Recording, and Building the Archive : The Author's Perspective
  • Creating Cultural Tropes : The Publishers, the Authors, and the Politics of Circulation of Visual Sources
  • Recasting Stereotypes? Multivocal Reading through the Artist, Writer, and Audience's Perspective
  • Conflicting Viewpoints and New Visualization Strategies : The Audience, Publisher(s), Author(s), and the Printmakers
  • The Authors, the Uneven Politics of Citation and Collaboration, and the Reuse of Commercial Photographs
  • Epilogue: The Venture of Orientalist Publishing.