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With an Introduction by Jan Morris. Series; Everyman's library ; New Edition. Alexander William Kinglake was an English travel writer and historian. New York, Wiley and Putnam, About this Item: Lippincott ,
View basket. Continue shopping. Title: eothen. Several times the narrator sets out to explore in detail incidents attracting his attention for the length of a chapter but then refuses to integrate them meaningfully at all. Seeking consistent patterns underlying his travel experience, he con- stantly uncovers new and unfamiliar codes and materials which require textualization yet resist being accommodated to his imaginary geography.
In the nineteenth century, British travellers held a certain form of cultural authority over the East. Their narratives must therefore be regarded as simulative, mimicking cultural encounters that closely follow western arrangements and techniques of representation.
More than other Oriental travellers of his time, Kinglake was aware of the epistemological problems inherent in the production of travel literature. What set Kinglake apart from those who preceded him is that he did not bother to excise from his rendering of the Orient anything that might have ruffled Victorian sensibilities or countered the demand for unified experience. Addressing him- self to his close friend Eliot Warburton — , Kinglake writes in the preface to Eothen: The very feeling, however, which enabled me to write thus freely, prevented me from robing my thoughts in that grave and decorous style which I should have maintained if I had professed to lecture the public.
Whilst I feigned to myself that you, and you only, were listening, I could not by possibility speak very sol- emnly. Heaven forbid that I should talk to my own genial friend, as though he were a great and enlightened Community, or any other respectable Aggregate. Presenting his own work as a travel diary in disguise every reader is free to devour, he seeks to attract the casual Victorian consumer unaccustomed to such frankness, originality and vivacity of expression. But these notions can only be communicated when they are not experienced directly, as the above statement points out in all clarity.
Thus, whenever Kinglake happens to hit upon something he does not expect or is not prepared to cope with, he must needs resort to prefabricated images and biased concepts of the other in order to convey what is otherwise unsayable. Well, now I had come; there to the south was Tenedos, and here at my side was Imbros, all right and according to the map; but aloft over Imbros, aloft in a far-away heaven, was Sam- othrace, the watch-tower of Neptune! So Homer had appointed it, and so it was; the map was correct enough, but could not, like Homer, convey the whole truth.
Thus vain and false are mere human surmises and doubts which clash with Homeric wit! Moreover, they point to the impasse of a subject trapped between conflicting symbolic regimes, a situation that re-inscribes the drama of definition of self and other in varying and often uneven relations. How is he to make reliable observations when the given repertory of lexemes fails to accommodate the material vision of the East open- ing up in front of the traveller?