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Goethe: Journey of the Mind (Hardcover)
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The German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is often seen as the
quintessential eighteenth-century tourist, though with the
exception of a trip to Italy he hardly left his homeland. Compared
to several of his peripatetic contemporaries, he took few actual
journeys, and the list of European cities in which he never set
foot is quite long. He never saw Vienna, Paris, or London, for
example, and he only once visited Berlin. During the last thirty
years of his life he was essentially a homebound writer, but his
intensive mental journeys countered this sedentary lifestyle, and
the misconception of Goethe as a traveler springs from the uniquely
international influence of his writing. While Goethe's Italian
Journey is a classic piece of travel writing, it was the product of
his only extended physical journey. The majority, rather, were of
the mind, taken amid the pages of books by others. In his reading,
Goethe was the prototypical eighteenth-century armchair traveler,
developing knowledge of places both near and far through the words
and eyewitness accounts of others. In Goethe: Journeys of the Mind,
Nancy Boerner and Gabrielle Bersier explore what it was that made
the great writer distinct from his peers and offer insight into the
ways that Goethe was able to explore the cultures and environments
of places he never saw with his own eyes.
General
Imprint: |
The Armchair Traveller at the BookHaus
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
February 2019 |
Authors: |
Gabrielle Bersier
• Nancy Boerner
• Peter Boerner
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Dimensions: |
210 x 115 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
212 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-909961-52-4 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-909961-52-3 |
Barcode: |
9781909961524 |
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