Labour, Time and Money in Henry C. Barkley's Accounts of Bulgaria

Labour, Time and Money in Henry C. Barkley' s Accounts of Bulgaria

Dora Panayotova [dora_panayotova@hotmail.com.de]

T A B L E OF C O N T E N T S

1. Literary Background

1.1 The Current State of Research
1.2 Nineteenth-Century Travel Accounts about Bulgaria
1.3 Barkley' s Writings and the Genre of Travel Literature
1.4 The Credibility of the Information
1.5 The Problem of Author, Narrator and Traveller
1.6 Coping with the Cultural Clash

2. Historical Background: The Ottoman Empire in the Nineteenth Century 2.1 The Reform Era
2.2 The Eastern Question
2.3 The Vilayet Law and the Danube Province 3. Time 3.1 Defining ' Time'
3.2 Time Perception in Nineteenth Century England 3.2.1 Linearity of Time
3.2.2 The Cyclical Time Structure of Everyday Reality 3.3 Time in Barkley' s Text
3.4 Experiencing a Psychological Time-Shift
3.5 Time Orientation Towards Past, Present, and Future
3.6 Measuring Time
3.7 Social Institutions
3.8 Leisure Time
3.9 The Sacred Times of Religion: English and Turkish Burials 4. Labour and Money

4.1 The Nineteenth Century Protestant Work Ethic
4.2 Barkley' s "Private" Protestant Work Ethic
4.3 Ottoman Working Habits
4.3.1 Ottoman Women and Off-Spring: Morals and Upbringing
4.3.2 The Morality of Oriental Institutions
4.3.3 National Character Traits as an Explanation of Working Habits
4.3.3.1 The Turkish Character
4.3.3.1.1 Old and New Ottomans
4.3.3.1.2 The Varna Merchants
4.3.3.1.3 Turkish Peasants
4.3.3.2 The Bulgarians
4.3.2.3 The English Navvies

Conclusion
Bibliography

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