TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lindquist, Jason H.
T1  - “Under the influence of an exotic nature...national remembrances are insensibly effaced”
BT  - Threats to the European subject in Humboldt’s  personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent
JF  - HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies
N2  - 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.
KW  - 1799-1804
KW  - Europa
KW  - Relation historique
Y1  - 2004
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-35109
SN  - 2568-3543
SN  - 1617-5239
VL  - V
IS  - 9
SP  - 44
EP  - 59
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Leitner, Ulrike
T1  - Humboldt's works on Mexico
JF  - HIN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz ; international review for Humboldtian studies
N2  - Humboldt wrote about Mexico from the perspective of a scientific explorer and naturalist. His works include his diaries, the Essai politique sur le royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne, the Tablas géograficas, the Vues des Cordillères and a geographic atlas. Concerning the scientific aspect, the lack of a section on Mexico in the Relation historique is not a real deficit, since this can be found in the Essai. But only the diaries and letters from the journey, both published by the Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Centre, Berlin, can be considered an adequate substitute. The following will show the origin of Humboldt's writings on Mexico, offer historical and bibliographical facts and present the publications "Beiträge zur Alexander von Humboldt-Forschung", as well as Humboldt’s handwritten estate as far as they are available to us.
N2  - Humboldt escribió sobre México desde la perspectiva de un explorador científico y un naturalista. Sus obras incluyen diarios, el "ensayo político sobre el reino de la Nueva España", las tablas geográficas, las vistas de las Cordilleras y un atlas geográfico. En lo relacionado al aspecto científico la falta de una sección dedicada a México en la "relation historique" no representa un déficit real, porque ésta se encuentra en el ensayo. Pero sólo los diarios y las cartas de viaje, ambos publicados por el Centro de Investigación Alexander-von-Humboldt, Berlín, pueden ser considerados un substituto adecuado. El siguiente texto mostrará los origenes de los escritos de Humboldt acerca de México, ofrecerá hechos históricos y bibliográficos y presentará las publicaciones "Beiträge zur Alexander von Humboldt-Forschung" así como los manuscritos de Humboldt según éstos sean accesibles a nosotros.
KW  - 1799-1804
KW  - Alejandro de Humboldt en México
KW  - Essai politique sur le royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne
KW  - México
KW  - Reisetagebuch
KW  - Relation historique
KW  - Vues des Cordilleres
Y1  - 2000
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-34355
SN  - 2568-3543
SN  - 1617-5239
VL  - I
IS  - 1
SP  - 29
EP  - 44
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -