German culture and the modern environmental imagination : : narrating and depicting nature / / Sabine Wilke ; cover illustration, Stephanie Welch.
Thinking about and relating to the environment – what the Germans call Umwelt , id est, the world that surrounds us – in the way that we do today has a long tradition within modern German culture. German scientists were among the many European explorers that left Europe in the late eighteenth centur...
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| Superior document: | Nature, Culture and Literature, Volume 11 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill Rodopi,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Nature, culture and literature ;
Volume 11. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- The German environmental imagination
- Environmental aesthetics and the German intellectual tradition
- Alexander von Humboldt and the modern environmental imagination
- Transatlantic dialogues on nature: art, theater and beyond
- Nature on the move: from landscape to modern cinema
- Staging nature: polar performances
- Colonial nature: negotiating the tropics
- Beyond the modern German environmental imagination
- Bibliography
- Index.