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Ancient World in the 19th Century: Close or Distant?
Kepartová, Jana
The author deals with the relationship between Czech society of the 19th century and the ancient world. Despite many school lessons devoted to this subject the autopsy has demonstrated that the ancient world with its pagan mentality remained rather distant for the Czech society of the 19th century.
The first Czech journeys around the world
Martínek, Jiří
Short contribution, summarizing the life and the journey the first Czech travellers who take (and finished) journey around the world: F. W. Sieber, Ludwig Schmarda, Eduard Preiss.
"Without Chinese misshapen architecture". A discussion about the architect William Chambers in Bohemia?
Petrasová, Taťána
The paper deals with passages concerning the Chinese pavilion in the essays "Feelings during the visit to Krásný Dvůr/Schönhof Park" (1797) by the Czech painter Jan Quirin Jahn. His use of the term "agreeably horrid emotions" shows that he knew of the categories "the enchanting" and "the horrid" of William Chambers, probably via Christian C. L. Hirschfeld.
„Ugly figures grimaced here...“ The description of non-European cultures in Czech travel books of 19th century
Winter, Tomáš
The text treats the way of writing about non-European cultures in Czech travel books of 19th century with accent on primitivism and colonialism.

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