This volume contains two short papers on ways in which Africa was depicted in fictional works published between 1689 and 1856. The first discusses four lesser-known German prose works from the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, indicating how they were influenced not only by contemporary ethnography but also by literary fashions and - in the Enlightenment - by philosophical debates. The second paper deals with a British woman who visited West Africa in the early nineteenth century and subsequently included her ethnographic observations in fictional writings.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:33594 |
| Date | 21 March 2019 |
| Creators | Hermann, Ralf, Strickrodt, Silke |
| Publisher | Universität Leipzig |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | German |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:book, info:eu-repo/semantics/book, doc-type:Text |
| Source | History and Culture Series University of Leipzig papers on Africa |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-323777, qucosa:32377 |
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