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Andrew Cusack, Professor Andrew Cusack

Johannes Scherr - Mediating Culture in the German Nineteenth Century

English · Hardback

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Description

Traces the career of the widely read cultural historian Johannes Scherr and his development of a new kind of historical writing for the increasingly globalized 19th-century world.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Note on Translations and the Use of German Texts
Introduction: The Success and Failure of Johannes Scherr
Scherr's Liminality: Between Nations and Academic Cultures
The Cultural Historian as Mediator
Worlding German Literature
Weltschmerz and Pessimism-Scherr's Old-Age Style
Conclusion: Where Next for Scherr?
Appendix: Overview of Essays in the Menschliche Tragikomödie
Bibliography

About the author

Andrew Cusack

Product details

Authors	Andrew Cusack, Professor Andrew Cusack
Publisher	Boydell & Brewer Ltd.

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	31.03.2021

EAN	9781640140578
ISBN	978-1-64014-057-8
No. of pages	204
Dimensions	158 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
Weight	444 g
Illustrations	1 b/w and 2 line illus.
Series	Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture Studies in German Literature L
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > History Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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