“Under the influence of an exotic nature...national remembrances are insensibly effaced”: Threats to the European Subject in Humboldt’s Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent
Article in English, Abstract in English. My essay attends to a number of passages in Alexander von Humboldt’s Personal Narrative in which the Prussian explorer expresses anxiety about the apparent dangers posed by the overwhelmingly productive tropical landscapes he observes. In these passages, the...
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Universität Potsdam
2004-10-01
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| Series: | HiN - Alexander von Humboldt im Netz. Internationale Zeitschrift für Humboldt-Studien |
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| Online Access: | http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/romanistik/humboldt/hin/hin9/lindquist.htm |