Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was a world traveler,
bestselling writer, and versatile researcher, a European salon
sensation, and global celebrity. Yet the enormous literary echo he
generated has remained largely unexplored. Humboldt inspired
generations of authors, from Goethe and Byron to Enzensberger and
Garcia Marquez, to reflect on cultural difference, colonial
ideology, and the relation between aesthetics and science. This
collection of one-hundred texts features tales of adventure, travel
reports, novellas, memoirs, letters, poetry, drama, screenplays,
and even comics-many for the first time in English. The selection
covers the foundational myths and magical realism of Latin America,
the intellectual independence of Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, and Whitman
in the United States, discourses in Imperial, Weimar, Nazi, East,
and West Germany, as well as recent films and fiction. This
documented source book addresses scholars in cultural and
postcolonial studies as well as readers in history and comparative
literature.
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