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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.
Alexander von Humboldt explored the Spanish Empire on the verge of
its collapse (1799-1804). He is the most significant German travel
writer and the most important mediator between Europe and the
Americas of the nineteenth century. His works integrated knowledge
from two dozen domains. Today, he is at the center of debates on
imperial discourse, postcolonialism, and globalization. This
collection of fifty essays brings together a range of responses,
many presented here for the first time in English. Authors from
Schiller, Chateaubriand, Sarmiento, and Nietzsche, to Robert Musil,
Kurt Tucholsky, Ernst Bloch, and Alejo Carpentier paint the
historical background. Essays by contemporary travel writers and
recent critics outline the current controversies on Humboldt. The
source materials collected here will be indispensable to scholars
of German, French, and Latin and North American literature as well
as cultural and postcolonial studies, history, art history, and the
history of science.
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