Visualizing Egypt

Visualizing Egypt

European Travel, Book Publishing, and the Commercialization of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century

Banas, Paulina

American University in Cairo Press

04/2025

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9781617976674

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List of Figures
List of Plates
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Making it "Real": Illustrated Books on Egypt as Sites for Knowledge Production, Commercial Mediation, and Technological Investigation

Part 1: From the late 1830s to the 1850s
1. Making it "Modern": The Publisher's Perspective and the Marketing of the Nile Valley
2. Observing, Recording, and Building the Archive: The Author's Perspective
3. Creating Cultural Tropes: The Publishers, the Authors, and the Politics of Circulation of Visual Sources
4. Recasting Stereotypes? Multivocal Reading through the Artist, Writer, and Audience's Perspective

Part 2: The 1860s and 1870s
5. Conflicting Viewpoints and New Visualization Strategies: The Audience, Publisher(s), Author(s), and the Printmakers
6. The Authors, the Uneven Politics of Citation and Collaboration, and the Reuse of Commercial Photographs

Epilogue: The Venture of Orientalist Publishing

Notes
Bibliography
Index
Art;History;criticism;theory;sociology;language;discipline;industry;Europe;France;reading;illustration;market;representation;colonial;nineteenth century;Napoleon;printing;technology;Britain;islamic;architecture;sales;circulation;writer;Emile Prisse d'Avennes;orientalist;commercial;modern;nile valley;archive;author;tropes;politics;visual;sources;stereotypes;printmakers;citation;photographs;Birmingham;culture;North Africa;Sorbonne