Exploring the interior : essays on literary and cultural history /: essays on literary and cultural history. (2018)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Exploring the interior : essays on literary and cultural history /: essays on literary and cultural history. (2018)
- Main Title:
- Exploring the interior : essays on literary and cultural history
- 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.
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- Available online (eLD content is only available in our Reading Rooms) ↗
- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.322930
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- 01_260.xml