Afrika in der europäischen Fiktion 1689-1856: zwei Fallstudien

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