Time and temporalities in European travel writing / edited by Christina Kullberg and Paula Henrikson.

"This book examines time and temporality in European travel writings from the late medieval period to the turn of the nineteenth century. In eight case studies, framed with a theoretical introduction, the volume explores how temporal aspects have shaped the genre and the ways in which places visited are conveyed in the travellers' accounts"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Time, temporality, and travel writing : introduction / Paula Henrikson and Christina Kullberg -- Time and temporality in travel accounts from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries : Mandeville, Tucher, Ecklin / Maximilian Benz and Christian Kiening -- Like Moses on the Nile : competing temporalities in Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre's Histoire générale des Antilles habitées par les François (1654/1667) / Christina Kullberg -- Signs of travel and memory : the case of the wooden slabs in Jukkasjärvi (1681-1736) / Sylvie Requemora-Gros -- Almanacs, polytemporality, and early modern travel / Margaret R. Hunt -- Time travel in the Pacific : maritime exploration and eighteenth-century German historiography / Sünne Juterczenka -- Ruins and revolutions : Jacob Berggren on classical soil / Paula Henrikson -- Jerusalem in every soul : temporalities of faith in Fredrika Bremer's and Harriet Martineau's travel narratives of Palestine / Anna Bohlin -- Temporalities of the anti-modern : Angel Ganivet's Neo-Romantic mapping of Western civilization / Peter Stadius.