@article{Lindquist2004,
  author    = {Lindquist, Jason H.},
  title     = {"Under the influence of an exotic nature...national remembrances are insensibly effaced"},
  series = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  volume    = {V},
  journal   = {HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies},
  number    = {9},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2568-3543},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-35109},
  pages     = {44 -- 59},
  year      = {2004},
  abstract  = {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 excesses of an "exotic nature" threaten European identity and modes of civilization—and they trouble the accuracy of Humboldt's own observational project. I also explore Humboldt's related worry that South American vegetable (and visual) overload will exert a destabilizing effect on his aesthetic sensibility, disrupting his ability to represent the "New Continent" accurately in writing. Finally, I sketch the influence of Humboldt's representations of tropical excess on nineteenth-century British cultural thought and literary practice. Studying the instabilities experienced by Personal Narrative's expatriates and colonists promises to draw out important tensions latent in Humboldt's treatment of tropical landscape and to illuminate broader epistemological and aesthetic shifts being worked out during the period.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{BiermannEtteKnoblochetal.2004,
  author    = {Biermann, Kurt-Reinhard and Ette, Ottmar and Knobloch, Eberhard and Lindquist, Jason H. and Lubrich, Oliver and Weigl, Engelhard},
  title     = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz},
  volume    = {V},
  number    = {9},
  editor    = {Ette, Ottmar and Knobloch, Eberhard},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  doi       = {10.18443/hinvol5iss092004},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-35157},
  pages     = {92},
  year      = {2004},
  abstract  = {- Kurt-R. Biermann (hg. von I. Schwarz): Ein „politisch schiefer Kopf" und der „letzte Mumienkasten" - Humboldt und Metternich - Ottmar Ette: Die Ordnung der Weltkulturen : Alexander von Humboldts Ansichten der Kultur - Eberhard Knobloch: Naturgenuss und Weltgem{\"a}lde : Gedanken zu Humboldts Kosmos - Jason H. Lindquist: threats to the European subject in Humboldt's personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent - Oliver Lubrich: Sobre la disoluci{\´o}n del clasicismo en la Relaci{\´o}n hist{\´o}rica de un viaje a las regiones equinocciales del Nuevo Continente - Engelhard Weigl: Wald und Klima: Ein Mythos aus dem 19. Jahrhundert},
  language  = {de}
}