ROUTES OF TEMPORARY DISPLACEMENT IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ROMANIA: TRAJECTORIES OF SPACE IN THE TRAVEL ACCOUNTS OF ADÈLE HOMMAIRE DE HELL AND JAMES WILLIAM OZANNE
ROUTES OF TEMPORARY DISPLACEMENT IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ROMANIA: TRAJECTORIES OF SPACE IN THE TRAVEL ACCOUNTS OF ADÈLE HOMMAIRE DE HELL AND JAMES WILLIAM OZANNE.

Summary/Abstract: The article scrutinizes the trajectories of space in the travel accounts of the Frenchwoman AdèleHommaire de Hell and of the British journalist James William Ozanne who spend one year (1868), respectivelythree years (1870-1873) in Romania. During their temporary displacement they use various means oftransport—such as steamboat, coach, or train—which provide multiple perspectives on the local spatiality anddifferent decoupages of the social, cultural, and economic reality. Taking into account criticism in mentalitiesand spatial studies, I show that the network of the travellers’ routes configures cartographic sequences of theRomanian territory at the end of the 1860s and the beginning of the 1870s.

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