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review October 2026

Encountering the many “Easts”

Review by Tomasz Ewertowski
Edith Durham in a wide-brimmed hat and long skirt talking with the bearded bajraktar of Koplik, who leans on a stick, while a girl in a white dress watches, Shkodra, Albania, 1912.
Re-examining Nineteenth-Century Easts (Manchester University Press, 2026), edited by Claudia Capancioni, Julia Kuehn and Mariaconcetta Costantini, examines various forms of gendered and gendering nineteenth-century writing about the Western allure of travelling to the Easts. Tomasz Ewertowski writes that the volume offers a valuable contribution to ongoing conversations about gender, the Easts and intercultural encounters.
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