(Re-)writing the radical : enlightenment, revolution and cultural transfer in 1790s Germany, Britain and France / edited by Maike Oergel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oergel, Maike, 1964-

Series:

Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft.

Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft, 1860-210X ; 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enlightenment--Europe.

Enlightenment.

European literature--18th century--Translations--History and criticism.

European literature.

Translating and interpreting--Europe.

Translating and interpreting.

Europe--Civilization--18th century.

Europe.

Europe--Intellectual life--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays in this volume discuss the overlap between philosophical, aesthetic, and political concerns in the 1790's either in the work of individuals or in the transfer of cultural materials across national borders, which tended to entail adaptation and transformation. What emerges is a clearer understanding of the "fate" of the Enlightenment, its radicalization and its "overcoming" in aesthetic and political terms, and of the way in which political "paranoia", generated by the fear of a spreading revolutionary radicalism, facilitated and influenced the cultural transfer of the "radical". The collection will be of interest to scholars in French, German, English, and comparative studies working on the later 18th century or early 19th century. It is of particular interest to those working on the impact of the French Revolution, those engaged in reception studies, and those researching the interface between political and cultural activities. It is also of key interest to intellectual historians of this period, as well as general historians with an interest in modern conservatism and radicalism.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Foreword / Shaffer, Elinor

(Re-)Writing the Radical: Enlightenment, Revolution and Cultural Transfer in 1790's Germany, Britain and France Introduction / Oergel, Maike

'That war with softer cares may be united': Harriet Lee, Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, the Thirty Years' War, and the Politics of Adaptation / Heuer, Imke

From Sentiment to Sexuality: English Werther-Stories, the French Revolution, and German Vampires / Kord, Susanne

Radical Translations: Dubious Anglo-German Cultural Transfer in the 1790's / Murnane, Barry

Goethe and Schiller, Peasants and Students: Weimar and the French Revolution / Wilson, W. Daniel

Revolution, Abolition, Aesthetic Sublimation: German Responses to News from France in the 1790's / Tautz, Birgit

Print and Preserve: Periodicals in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany / Schellenberg, Renata

Aesthetics and Politics in the Journal London und Paris (1798-1815) / Deuling, Christian

Changing Authorities on HMS Bounty: The Public Images of William Bligh and Fletcher Christian in the Context of Late Eighteenth-Century Political and Intellectual Conditions / Oergel, Maike

A Fictional Response to the Categorical Imperative: Women Refugees, Servants and Slaves in Charrière's Trois femmes / Still, Judith

Sade, Revolution, and the Boundaries of Freedom / Deininger, Melissa

Impossible Crossings: Friedrich Hölderlin's Hyperion and the Aesthetic Foundation of Democracy / Ladegaard, Jakob

Événements de circonstance: The Classical Tradition in the Age of Revolution / Macgregor Morris , Ian / Degner, Uta

Detours of Knowledge: Aspects of Novalis' Aesthetic Epistemology / Krilles, Peter

Challenging Time(s): Memory, Politics, and the Philosophy of Time in Jean Paul's Quintus Fixlein / Göttsche, Dirk

Xavier de Maistre and Angelology / Mccallam, David

Introducing the Songs with Inspiration: William Blake, Lavater, and the Legacy of Felix Hess / Erle, Sibylle

The Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9783110290110

3110290111

OCLC:

829462263