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Lamartine's 1835 multi-volume account of his journey through Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine — the most ambitious French Romantic travel book, read throughout Europe and translated into multiple languages. Embeds the early version of the Graziella story; influenced by Chateaubriand and in turn influential on Nerval and Flaubert.
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Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem
by François-René de Chateaubriand
The great predecessor text — Chateaubriand's 1811 Oriental pilgrimage that established the genre Lamartine works in; reading it alongside the Voyage shows how the tradition developed.
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Voyage en Orient
by Gérard de Nerval
Nerval's 1851 Orient journey — the next generation's version of the same pilgrimage, more hallucinatory and less political than Lamartine's, but working in the same tradition.
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Notes de voyage
by Gustave Flaubert
Flaubert's 1849-50 Egypt journey (published posthumously) — the Realist writer's encounter with the same Orient, stripped of all Romantic idealization and devastatingly precise.
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A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
by Alphonse de Lamartine
The Victorian English translation of the Voyage, which changed its title to emphasize the religious dimension — the version that circulated most widely in England and America.
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Eothen
by Alexander Kinglake
The English travel classic (1844) of the same journey — a sardonic, witty English response to the same Oriental world that Lamartine treated with lyric solemnity; reading both shows the range of European responses.
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Personal Narrative
by Alexander von Humboldt
Humboldt's great American travel narrative — the scientific-lyric hybrid that influenced the tradition of ambitious travel writing that Lamartine belongs to.
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The Alhambra
by Washington Irving
Irving's 1832 Orientalist tales — the American response to the same Mediterranean and Moorish world that Lamartine and Chateaubriand were making a French literary territory.
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Graziella
by Alphonse de Lamartine
The novella that expanded the Graziella episode embedded in the Voyage en Orient — the companion text that develops the most personal episode of the journey.
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