Exploring the interior : essays on literary and cultural history /: essays on literary and cultural history. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Karl S. Guthke.
• Authors: Guthke, Karl Siegfried, 1933-
• Other Names: Open Book Publishers, publisher.
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Cambridge : Open Book Publishers
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (366 pages), 1 black and white illustration
• Subjects: 809/.033; Anthropology -- Europe -- History -- 18th century; Ethnology -- Europe -- 18th century; European literature -- History and criticism; Literature and society; Enlightenment; Anthropology; Enlightenment; Ethnology; European literature; Intellectual life; Literature and society; Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; Europe; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783743957; 1783743956; 9781783743964; 1783743964; 9781783743971; 1783743972
• Related ISBNs: 9781783743940; 9781783743933; 9781783745289X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliography.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.