Recent imagological scholarship about the Balkans has revised the Balkanism thesis by examining the sympathetic lens through which British liberals viewed the peninsula's Christian and Slavic nationalities following the 1903 establishment of the Balkan Committee. Revisionist historiography has, however, overlooked how non-Christian and non-Slavic communities were represented in Britain beyond overgeneralized orientalist stereotypes of ‘the villainous Turk’. This article aims to correct this imbalance by examining representations of Albania in the travel writing and political commentary of Mary Edith Durham and Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux Herbert, Britain's most notable supporters of Albania's national movement in the early twentieth century, who came to sympathize with the country because of their own peripheral position in relation to the British cultural and political mainstream, by virtue of gender and an unfashionably conservative worldview. Focusing on their published travel writing and political commentary between the 1904 publication of Durham's first narrative, Through the Lands of the Serb, and Herbert's untimely death in 1923, this article proposes that they articulated a counter-discourse to liberal writing on south-eastern Europe and that their representations of Albania foregrounded the capacity for self-governance, in contrast to the cultural chaos attributed to the country by liberals.

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在阿尔巴尼亚独立之路上伊迪丝·达勒姆和奥布里·赫伯特的旅行写作和政治评论中代表阿尔巴尼亚，c。 1904–1923


最近有关巴尔干的意象学研究通过审视 1903 年巴尔干委员会成立后英国自由主义者看待半岛基督教和斯拉夫民族的同情视角，修正了巴尔干主义论点。然而，修正主义史学忽视了非基督教和非斯拉夫群体在英国的表现，超越了东方主义对“邪恶的土耳其人”的过度概括的刻板印象。本文旨在通过研究玛丽·伊迪丝·达勒姆和奥布里·奈杰尔·亨利·莫利纽克斯·赫伯特的旅行写作和政治评论中对阿尔巴尼亚的描述来纠正这种不平衡，他们是二十世纪初英国最著名的阿尔巴尼亚民族运动的支持者，他们开始同情阿尔巴尼亚的民族运动。由于性别和不合时宜的保守世界观，他们相对于英国文化和政治主流处于边缘地位。本文重点关注他们在 1904 年出版达勒姆第一篇叙事作品《穿越塞尔维亚人的土地》和 1923 年赫伯特英年早逝期间发表的游记和政治评论，提出他们对东南欧的自由主义写作提出了反话语他们对阿尔巴尼亚的代表突出了自治能力，这与自由主义者归因于该国的文化混乱形成鲜明对比。