Colonial Fantasies - Conquest, Family, and Nation in Precolonial Germany, 1770-1870

"Susanne Zantop has already established herself as one of the leading scholars in eighteenth and nineteenth-century German literature and culture, and it is no surprise that her long-awaited book is so compelling. Her historically informed study of German fantasies. . . breaks new ground at the intersections of literature, philosophy, and the 'political unconscious'."--W. Daniel Wilson, University of California

About the author

Susanne Zantop

Summary

Uncovering Germany's colonial legacy and imagination, this book describes the significance of colonial fantasies, and explores imaginary colonial encounters of Germans with natives in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century literature. This book is of interest to historians, literary theorists, cultural critics, students, and scholars.

Product details

• Authors: Susanne Zantop, Susanne Zantop, Suzanne Zantop
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.09.1997
• EAN: 9780822319603
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1960-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Weight: 721 g
• Illustrations: 9 illustrations
• Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Deutschland, Europäische Geschichte, 1500 bis heute, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit, Postkolonialismus