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The Orient of Europe : the mythical image of India and competing images of German national identity / by Nicholas A. Germana.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Germana, Nicholas A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orientalism--Germany.
- Orientalism.
- Germany--Civilization--Indic influences.
- Germany.
- Germany--Civilization--19th century.
- Germany--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- August Wilhelm Schlegel proclaimed that "[i]f the regeneration of the human species started in the East, Germany must be considered the Orient of Europe." How can this remarkable identification of Germany with the subjugated oriental 'other' be explained? In The Orient of Europe, Nicholas A. Germana explores how German thinkers, especially those associated with the Early Romantic movement, set India up as an "ideal mirror," in which they could perceive the image of the Germany they longed f...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-1208-0
- OCLC:
- 831120699
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