The real-and-imagined spaces of philhellenic travel

Stock, Paul

doi:10.1080/13507486.2013.770825

European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire

2013

DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2013.770825

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The real-and-imagined spaces of philhellenic travel

Paul Stock

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“… 40. On the genre of travel art and the production of sketches and watercolours, see: Tsigakou 1981; Stafford 1984; Mitchell 1989; Stock 2013. There are flashes of a sort of romanticism when Finlay bemoans the destruction of antiquities by Pasha’s regime.…”

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George Finlay in Egypt and Switzerland: Nineteenth-Century Travel, Scholarship and Social Networks

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2023

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George Finlay was a British gentlemen and philhellene, resident in Greece in the mid-nineteenth century. His journals, letters, library and antiquities now reside at the British School at Athens, collections that provide a wealth of information both about Finlay himself and about the world of his contemporaries. This paper looks at two episodes from Finlay’s life as preserved in his archive, documenting two overseas travels: the first is a tour around Egypt, Jerusalem and the Near East in 1845 and 1846, and the second is a series of repeat visits to Switzerland beginning in 1859 and continuing in the late 1860s. By looking at Finlay’s itineraries and at the activities he undertook in Egypt and Switzerland, and by analysing what and how Finlay chose to document in his notebooks, the aim of this paper is to understand more about Finlay’s motivations for travel and his intellectual formation. While Finlay’s time in the Near East was likely spurred by the recent publication of handbooks and by a developing fashion for (biblical) tourism, his time in Switzerland coincided with the flurry of excitement from recent excavations of the Swiss lake villages, allowing Finlay to re-engage an interest in prehistory that he had long since developed. In each case, Finlay’s social connections and his networks played a large part in directing his programme.

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George Finlay in Egypt and Switzerland: Nineteenth-Century Travel, Scholarship and Social Networks

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2023

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“…While the general purpose of these texts was to be scientific and to record accurately what was seen, these travellers occasionally wrote (or drew) in over romanticised ways (see the sketches in Pouqueville 1835); cf. Tsigakou (1981), Stafford (1984), Stoneman (1987, 136–47) and Stock (2013) on creating external and ideal views of Greece in both literature and art, specifically in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Mitchell (1989) discusses this concept more broadly, as well as the blurring of simulation and reality in Orientalism.…”

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Early Modern Travellers in the Aegean: Routes and Networks

Loy

2019

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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This study uses the collection of fifteenth- to twentieth-century travel literature from the BSA library to consider issues of (elite) mobility in the Aegean Sea. These texts contain a wealth of information on the routes chosen by travellers between various islands and mainland ports, and on the navigability of the Aegean basin. By using a combination of computational Proximal Point Analysis and Social Network Analysis, these routes are visualised, and discussion focuses on how navigation varied both between centuries and according to the traveller's place of origin. It is suggested that travellers were dependent on other sorts of networks, and that routes travelled were shaped greatly by the economics and politics of the day. It is also proposed that methodologies used in this paper offer great potential for engaging broad-scale sets of archive data.

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Written in the Skies: Advertising, Technology, and Modernity in Britain since 1885

Taylor¹

2016

J. Br. Stud.

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New technologies significantly increased the reach of advertising from the late nineteenth century. Some aspects of this phenomenon, such as advances in printing methods, are well known. Others, in particular its controversial leap into the sky, have received far less attention. Though no longer seen as the home of divine portents, the sky did not become “empty space” in the modern era: it was still freighted with significance. This meant that the various attempts made by entrepreneurs from the 1880s to bring advertising to the skies were often met with hostility, even panic. In exploring these responses, this article resists depicting opponents of aerial advertising as oversensitive aesthetes or technophobes. Rather, it explores the ways in which urbanization and commercial development imbued the sky with new meanings. The sky was imagined as man's most valuable connection to nature in an urban society, a precious but endangered part of the nation's heritage, and an essential counterweight to consumer society. Aerial advertising therefore represented an unjustifiable commercialization of a priceless public space. The rejection of this form of advertising did not involve denying modernity, but achieving an accommodation with it.

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The real-and-imagined spaces of philhellenic travel

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

George Finlay in Egypt and Switzerland: Nineteenth-Century Travel, Scholarship and Social Networks

George Finlay in Egypt and Switzerland: Nineteenth-Century Travel, Scholarship and Social Networks

Early Modern Travellers in the Aegean: Routes and Networks

Written in the Skies: Advertising, Technology, and Modernity in Britain since 1885

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