"Examining a broad range of texts and travellers from across the world, the contributors discuss canonical authors such as Homer, Goethe, and Baudelaire, alongside lesser known writers such as Theodor Herzl, Hans Erich Nossack, and William Gibson. This theoretically rich volume …
Introduction: uncanny encounters -- Germans in the jungle : hot land and tales of adventure -- Europe in India : Hermann Hesse and the East -- Savage Freud : primitives, adventurers, and the uncanny method -- Exotic Europe : modernist ethnographies (Mann, Hofmannsthal, Musil) --…
Around 1900, when the last blank spaces on their maps were filled, Europeans traveled to far-flung places hoping to find traces of the spectacularly foreign. They discovered instead what Freud called, several years later, the "uncannily" familiar: disturbing reflections of thems…