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.