The Flavour of the Road

Travels in Croatian Romanticism (1839–1860)

By (author) Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković

Book cover: The Flavour of the Road

Extent: 288 pages

Publisher: Brill | Schöningh

Subjects: Literary Studies, Nineteenth-Century Studies, Slavic Studies

Series: Central and Eastern Europe

Series volume number: 15

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(May 2025)

ISBN: 9783506797179

6.1 x 9.25 inches

Price: $129.00

In stock

This book is an invitation to follow the roads travelled by Croatian Romantics and to get a flavour of their multi-sensory experiences.


This book is an invitation to follow the roads travelled by Croatian Romantics and to get a flavour of their multi-sensory experiences. The routes of travel were determined by the identity-related needs of creating a modern nation, language, literature and culture, with a specific person as the subject of experience and cognition. An analysis of the selected travelogues shows the intertwined collective, ideological and individual perspectives, the changing demands to which the travellers responded, and the altering way of perceiving the places visited. Croatian travel accounts, closely linked to cultural and political concepts, show the search for and the clash between the familiar and the foreign in Dalmatia, Bosnia, Croatia, in what is now Slovenia, and in northern Italy.

  • By (author) Krystyna Pieniążek-Marković