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Exploring the interior : essays on literary and cultural history /
"In this fascinating collection of essays Harvard Emeritus Professor Karl S. Guthke examines the ways in which, for European scholars and writers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, world-wide geographical exploration led to an exploration of the self. Guthke explains how in the age...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Cambridge :
Open Book Publishers,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction: From the Interior of Continents to the Interior of the Mind
- I. "THE GREAT MAP OF MANKIND UNROLLED." 1. Faust and the Cannibals: Geographical Horizons in the Sixteenth Century ; 2. "Errand into the Wilderness": The American Careers of Some Cambridge Divines in the Pre-Commonwealth Era ; 3. At Home in the World: Scholars and Scientists Expanding Horizons ; 4. In the Wake of Captain Cook: Global versus Humanistic Education in the Age of Goethe ; 5. Opening Goethe's Weimar to the World: Travellers from Great Britain and America ; 6. In a "Far-Off Land": B. Traven's Mexican Stories
- II. WORLDS IN THE STARRY SKIES. 7. Nightmare and Utopia: Extraterrestrials from Galileo to Goethe ; 8. Lessing's Science: Exploring Life in the Universe
- III. THE UNIVERSE WITHIN. 9. A Saint with Blood on her Hands: Schiller's Joan of Arc ; 10. The Curse of Good Deeds: Schiller's William Tell ; 11. Revelation or Deceit? Last Words in Detective Novels ; 12. Genius and Insanity: Nietzsche's Collapse as Seen from Paraguay
- Acknowledgements
- Selective Bibliography for Further Reading
- Index.