Abstract
AbstractAfter giving an overview of the development of and recent trends in research on world travel literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, this article considers new research perspectives by linking world travel literature, the history of science, and the history of literary forms. While the latest research has drawn attention to the importance of studying the multiplicity of travels, contexts, practices, sources, logbooks, and travel reports, this essay identifies ‘comparison and comparing’ as a historical key concept in the making of world travels as a genre and a starting point for the formation of early global perceptions about science, nature, and cultural difference. After drawing on various travel authors like Georg Forster, George Vancouver, Alexander von Humboldt, and Adelbert von Chamisso, the article finally aims at identifying new research directions by reconstructing both groups of historical actors, the ‘natives’ and the sailing Europeans, as distant objects of ethnographic literary studies.
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