A Peculiar Mixture - German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America

Through innovative interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh avenues of inquiry, the nine essays collected in A Peculiar Mixture endeavor to transform how we understand the bewildering multiplicity and complexity that characterized the experience of German-speaking people in the middle colonies. They explore how the various cultural expressions of German speakers helped them bridge regional, religious, and denominational divides and eventually find a way to partake in America's emerging national identity. Instead of thinking about early American culture and literature as evolving continuously as a singular entity, the contributions to this volume conceive of it as an ever-shifting and tangled "web of contact zones." They present a society with a plurality of different native and colonial cultures interacting not only with one another but also with cultures and traditions from outside the colonies, in a "peculiar mixture" of Old World practices and New World influences.

Aside from the editors, the contributors are Rosalind J. Beiler, Patrick M. Erben, Cynthia G. Falk, Marie Basile McDaniel, Philip Otterness, Liam Riordan, Matthias Schönhofer, and Marianne S. Wokeck.

Info autore

Jan Stievermann is Professor of the History of Christianity in North America at the University of Heidelberg.Oliver Scheiding is Professor of American Literature at Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz.

Riassunto

A collection of essays that explore the transatlantic German cultures and identities of the colonial period.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Oliver Scheiding (Editore), Oliver (Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz) Scheiding (Editore), Scheiding Oliver (Editore), Jan Stievermann (Editore), Jan (University of Heidelberg) Stievermann (Editore), Stievermann Jan (Editore)
• Editore: University Presses
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.07.2013
• EAN: 9780271059501
• ISBN: 978-0-271-05950-1
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Peso: 454 g
• Illustrazioni: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Karten
• Serie: Max Kade Research Institute
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, American War of Independence, Refugees & Political Asylum, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General