Translating the World - Toward a New History of German Literature Around 1800

A narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Examines the intersection of literary and national imagination through the lens of Germany's emerging global networks and how they were rendered in two very different German cities: Hamburg and Weimar.

About the author

Birgit Tautz is Professor of German at Bowdoin College. She is the author of Reading and Seeing Ethnic Differences in the Enlightenment: From China to Africa.

Summary

A narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Examines the intersection of literary and national imagination through the lens of Germany’s emerging global networks and how they were rendered in two very different German cities: Hamburg and Weimar.

Product details

• Authors: Birgit Tautz, Birgit (Professor of German Tautz, Tautz Birgit
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.12.2017
• EAN: 9780271079103
• ISBN: 978-0-271-07910-3
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 567 g
• Series: Max Kade German-American Resea; Max Kade Research Institute; Max Kade Research Institute
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Germany, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism