Introduction. Defining transculturality; or, Reading from the other side -- Georg Forster in Oceania : enlightenment, sentiment, and the intrusion of the South Seas -- Adelbert von Chamisso's friendship : genre, Kadu, and relations -- Krusoe Robinson's adventure : technology of the self and double consciousness in Joachim Heinrich Campe's Robinson der Jungere -- The new world, femininity, and refusal of tragedy in August von Kotzebue's melodramas -- Johann Gottfried Herder : historicism, cultural relativism, and the Iroquois perpetual peace -- Immanuel Kant's Physische Geographie : authorship and the geographical order of things -- Epilogue.
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