Between East and West: Polish and Russian Nineteenth-Century Travel to the Orient

by Izabela Kalinowska

A comparison between Russian and Polish texts of travels to the Orient in the Nineteenth-Century.

This study analyzes and compares Polish and Russian texts of travel to the Romantic and Biblical Orient and situates Polish and Russian Orientalism within the broader context of contemporary post-colonial studies. At the same time, it elucidates the shortcomings that arise when such theories are applied whole cloth to the Polish and Russian cases...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580461727
• ISBN13: 9781580461726
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.2" x 6.3"