Transatlantic Echoes: Alexander von Humboldt in World Literature by Rex Clark (E

Transatlantic Echoes

by Rex Clark, Oliver Lubrich

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. This documented source book addresses scholars in cultural and postcolonial studies as well as readers in history and comparative literature.

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Publisher Description

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 García Márquez, 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.

Author Biography

Rex Clark is a Lecturer in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. He studied at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, researching the history of travel guides and travel discourse in the eighteenth century and focusing on Friedrich Nicolai, Georg Forster, and Alexander von Humboldt. He has published articles on digital media, postcolonial travel theory, and the reception of Alexander von Humboldt.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Editorial method
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Imagining HumboldtChapter 1. Elective Affinities 1809
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheChapter 2. The Winter Garden 1809
Ludwig Achim von ArnimChapter 3. A Voyage Around the World 1817
Adelbert von ChamissoChapter 4. Memoirs 1818
José Servando Teresa de MierChapter 5. On the Teocalli of Cholula 1820
José María HerediaChapter 6. Don Juan 1821
George Gordon ByronChapter 7. The Guahiba. A Tale 1822
William HerbertChapter 8. My Delirium on Chimborazo 1822
Simón BolívarChapter 9. Allocution to Poetry 1823
Andrés BelloChapter 10. Letters 1824
Carl RitterChapter 11. The Rock of the Mother, or the Guahiba Indian 1828
Adelbert von ChamissoChapter 12. Letters to Jeanette Wohl 1828-30
Ludwig BörneChapter 13. Letters 1831-34
Charles DarwinChapter 14. 'Beagle' Diary 1832
Charles DarwinChapter 15. On the Relation of Man to the Globe 1833
Ralph Waldo EmersonChapter 16. Administrative Adventures of a Wonderful Idea 1834
Honoré de Balzac Chapter 17. Diaries 1834
Hans Christian AndersenChapter 18. Voyage of the Beagle 1836
Charles Darwin Chapter 19. Journey to the Mountain of Toluca 1837
José María HerediaChapter 20. Life in Mexico 1840-41
Frances Calderón de la BarcaChapter 21. A Walk to Wachusett 1842
Henry David Thoreau Chapter 22. This Book Belongs to the King 1843
Bettina von ArnimChapter 23. Journals 1845
Ralph Waldo Emerson Chapter 24. Letters 1845-54
Charles DarwinChapter 25. Diaries 1846
Hans Christian AndersenChapter 26. The Involuntary Comedians 1846
Honoré de BalzacChapter 27. To Humboldt. An Ode 1847
Bernhard von Lepel Chapter 28. Journals 1847
Franz GrillparzerChapter 29. Eureka: A Prose Poem 1848
Edgar Allen PoeChapter 30. Knights of the Spirit 1850-51
Karl GutzkowChapter 31. A Girl of the People 1852
Karl GutzkowChapter 32. Journals 1852
Franz GrillparzerChapter 33. Letters 1853
Frederic Edwin ChurchChapter 34. Lutezia 1854
Heinrich HeineChapter 35. Indian Summer 1857
Adalbert StifterChapter 36. A Son of Alexander von Humboldt 1858
Eugen Hermann [von Dedenroth] Chapter 37. Poems 1858
Friedrich Adolf MaerckerChapter 38. The Conduct of Life 1860
Ralph Waldo EmersonChapter 39. Leaves of Grass 1860
Walt Whitman Chapter 40. Poems 1862
Friedrich Adolf Maercker Chapter 41. Travels through the Mark of Brandenburg 1862
Theodor FontaneChapter 42. Voyage to the Interior of the Earth 1864
Jules VerneChapter 43. Adventures of Captain Hatteras. The Desert of Ice 1865
Jules VerneChapter 44. The Children of Captain Grant 1865-67
Jules VerneChapter 45. Abu Telfan 1868
Wilhelm RaabeChapter 46. For the Humboldt Festival in America 1869
Emil RittershausChapter 47. Humboldt's Birthday 1869
Oliver Wendell Holmes Chapter 48. The Memory of Humboldt 1869
William McJimseyChapter 49. Journals 1869
Ralph Waldo Emerson Chapter 50. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas 1869-70
Jules Verne Chapter 51. Memoirs 1875
Heinrich LaubeChapter 52. Looking Back on my Life 1875
Karl GutzkowChapter 53. My Life on the Stage 1876
Karoline Bauer Chapter 54. A Voyage to Venezuela 1881
José MartíChapter 55. The Giant Raft. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 1881
Jules Verne Chapter 56. Letters 1881
Charles Darwin Chapter 57. O Guesa 1884
Joaquim de SousândradeChapter 58. The Buchholz Family 1884
Julius Stinde Chapter 59. Autobiography 1887
Charles DarwinChapter 60. The Mighty Orinoco 1898
Jules Verne Chapter 61. The Crisis 1901
Winston Churchill Chapter 62. Conquering Hero and Fool 1903
August Strindberg Chapter 63. Through the Brazilian Wilderness 1914
Theodore Roosevelt Chapter 64. Macunaíma 1928
Mário de Andrade Chapter 65. Bolívar 1930
Jordan Herbert Stabler Chapter 66. Astonishment at the Rhine Falls 1933
Ernst Bloch Chapter 67. Beyond the Mexique Bay 1934
Aldous HuxleyChapter 68. Dialogue with a Nazi 1944
Egon Erwin KischChapter 69. The Fair Rodríguez 1949
Artemio de Valle-ArizpeChapter 70. The Lost Steps 1953
Alejo CarpentierChapter 71. The Cantos, Canto LXXXIX 1956
Ezra Pound Chapter 72. Alexander von Humboldt 1959
Theo Piana and Horst SchönfelderChapter 73. Hallucinations 1966
Reinaldo Arenas Chapter 74. Seventy Drifted Away 1966
Ernst JüngerChapter 75. Corollary Bird 1966
Pablo NerudaChapter 76. The Guacharo 1969
Erich Fried Chapter 77. Seventy Drifted Away 1970
Ernst JüngerChapter 78. On the Chimborazo 1974
Tankred DorstChapter 79. Humboldt's Gift 1975
Saul Bellow Chapter 80. A. H. (1769-1859) 1975
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerChapter 81.  A Conversation in the House of Stein about the absent Herr von Goethe 1975
Peter HacksChapter 82. Guevara, or the Republic of the Sun 1975
Volker BraunChapter 83. Humboldt and Bolivar, or The New Continent 1979
Claus Hammel Chapter 84. The Russian Letters of the Huntsman Johann Seifert 1980
Christoph HeinChapter 85. Humboldt & Bonpland, Taxidermists 1981
Ibsen MartínezChapter 86. Caribbean Cold Breeze 1984
Hans Christoph Buch Chapter 87. Memory of Fire 1985
Eduardo GaleanoChapter 88. My Chimborazo Journals 1987-88
Rainer Simon Chapter 89. The Ascent of Chimborazo 1988
Paul Kanut Schäfer and Rainer Simon Chapter 90. Distant Land 2005
Rainer Simon Chapter 91. In Trouble Again 1988
Redmond O'HanlonChapter 92. The General in his Labyrinth 1989
Gabriel García MárquezChapter 93. Aire Libre 1996
Luis Armando Roche and Jacques EspagneChapter 94. Equinoctial Recurrence 1998
Denzil Romero Chapter 95. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter 2000
César AiraChapter 96. The Explorer 2001
Mattias Gerwald [Berndt Schulz]Chapter 97. Humboldt. Travel-Novella 2001
Günter Herburger Chapter 98. Wide World 2004
Lauren Gunderson Chapter 99. Alexander von Humboldt and François Arago 2004
Hans Magnus EnzensbergerChapter 100. Measuring the World 2005
Daniel KehlmannSource Bibliography
Index

Review

"There is no doubt that these volumes combine the most comprehensive collection of texts for the colorful and shifting history of Humboldt's fame...By laboriously assembling, and in many cases translating, an impressive number of texts from remote corners of libraries and collections, Clark and Lubrich have provided a valuable service to scholars and the general public. In this process they have filled a neglected space in the literature about Humboldt. They have pointed to the issues of colonialism and integrated Latin American voices and into the dialogue about Humboldt, a dialogue that concerns primarily Latin America. the world that Humboldt treated so exhaustively in histwenty-nine volumes. "  ·  Yearbook of German-American Studies

Long Description

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.

Review Quote

"There is no doubt that these volumes combine the most comprehensive collection of texts for the colorful and shifting history of Humboldt's fame...By laboriously assembling, and in many cases translating, an impressive number of texts from remote corners of libraries and collections, Clark and Lubrich have provided a valuable service to scholars and the general public. In this process they have filled a neglected space in the literature about Humboldt. They have pointed to the issues of colonialism and integrated Latin American voices and into the dialogue about Humboldt, a dialogue that concerns primarily Latin America. the world that Humboldt treated so exhaustively in histwenty-nine volumes. "

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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 Garc

Details ISBN0857452657 Author Oliver Lubrich Year 2012 ISBN-10 0857452657 ISBN-13 9780857452658 Media Book Format Hardcover Publisher Berghahn Books Imprint Berghahn Books Subtitle Alexander von Humboldt in World Literature Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Oliver Lubrich DEWEY 910.92 Illustrations 42 ills Language English Pages 480 Short Title TRANSATLANTIC ECHOES Series Berghahn UK Release Date 2012-04-01 AU Release Date 2012-04-01 NZ Release Date 2012-04-01 Publication Date 2012-04-01 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

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• Condition: Brand new
• ISBN-13: 9780857452658
• Book Title: Transatlantic Echoes
• ISBN: 9780857452658
• Publication Year: 2012
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Publication Name: Transatlantic Echoes: Alexander Von Humboldt in World Literature
• Author: Rex Clark, Oliver Lubrich
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