German Literature as a Transnational Field of Production, 1848-1919

A collection of new essays bringing into view the push and pull of the national and the international in the German-language cultural field of the period.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Transnational Literary Field in the Age of Nationalism
Lynne Tatlock and Kurt Beals
1: The Passion of Johannes Scherr: Historiography as Trauma
Thomas Beebee
2: Between Integration and Differentiation. On the Relationship between German and Austrian Literature in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
Norbert Bachleitner
3: Reading Stifter in America
Vance Byrd
4: Travel Writing and Transnational Marketing: How Ida Pfeiffer brought the World to Austria and Beyond
Kirsten Belgum
5: Ernst Brausewetter's Meisternovellen Deutscher Frauen (1897-98): Gender, Genre, and (Inter)National Aspiration
Lynne Tatlock
6: Arbiter of Nation? The Strange Case of Hans Müller-Casenov's The Humour of Germany (1892/1893)
Birgit Tautz
7: Visualizing the End: Nation, Empire, and Neo-Roman Mimesis in Keller and Fontane
Sean Franzel
8: Eurocentric Cosmopolitanism in Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks
Todd Kontje
9: European Peace from a Transatlantic Perspective: Victor Hugo and Bertha von Suttner
Paul Michael Lützeler
10: Hermann Graf Keyserling and Gu Hongming's Ethics of World Culture: Confucianism, Monarchism, and Anti-Colonialism
Chunjie Zhang
11: Constructing Symphonic Worlds: Gustav Mahler, Weltliteratur, and the Musical Program
Caroline A. Kita
12: The Garb of National Literature: Transnational Identities and the Early Twentieth-Century Schriftstreit
Tobias Boes
13: From European Symbolism to German Gesture: The International and Transnational Nationalism of Stefan George's Blätter für die Kunst
Daniela Gretz
14: Canon Fire: Dada's Attack on National Literature
Kurt Beals
Selected Bibliography of Works Cited
Notes on the Contributors
Index

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Edited by Lynne Tatlock and Kurt Beals

Summary

A collection of new essays bringing into view the push and pull of the national and the international in the German-language cultural field of the period.

Product details

• Assisted by: Dr. Kurt Beals (Editor), Kurt Beals (Editor), Lynne Tatlock (Editor), Lynne (Customer) Tatlock (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.06.2023
• EAN: 9781640141001
• ISBN: 978-1-64014-100-1
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 234 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 610 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture; Studies in German Literature L
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries