Exploring the Interior : Essays on Literary and Cultural History.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: From the Interior of Continents to the Interior of the Mind -- I. "THE GREAT MAP OF MANKIND UNROLLED" -- 1. Faust and the Cannibals: Geographical Horizons in the Sixteenth Century -- 2. "Errand into the Wilderness": The American Careers of Some Cambridge Divines in the Pre-Commonwealth Era -- 3. At Home in the World: Scholars and Scientists Expanding Horizons -- 4. In the Wake of Captain Cook: Global vs. Humanistic Education in the Age of Goethe -- 5. Opening Goethe's Weimar to the World: Travellers from Great Britain and America -- 6. In "A Far-Off Land": B. Traven's Mexican Stories -- II. WORLDS IN THE STARRY SKIES -- 7. Nightmare and Utopia: Extraterrestrial Worlds from Galileo to Goethe -- 8. Lessing's Science: Exploring Life in the Universe -- III. THE UNIVERSE WITHIN -- 9. A Saint With Blood on her Hands: Schiller's Joan of Arc -- 10. The Curse of Good Deeds: Schiller's William Tell -- 11. Revelation or Deceit?: Last Words in Detective Novels -- 12. Genius and Insanity: Nietzsche's Collapse as Seen from Paraguay -- Acknowledgements -- Selective Bibliography for Further Reading -- Index -- By the Same Author.