Translating the world : toward a new history of German literature around 1800 / Birgit Tautz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tautz, Birgit, author.

Series:

Max Kade German-American Research Institute series

The Max Kade Research Institute series: Germans beyond Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--Germany--Hamburg--18th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

German literature--Germany--Hamburg--19th century--History and criticism.

German literature--Germany--Weimar (Thuringia)--18th century--History and criticism.

German literature--Germany--Weimar (Thuringia)--19th century--History and criticism.

Translating and interpreting--Germany--History--18th century.

Translating and interpreting.

Translating and interpreting--Germany--History--19th century.

History.

Germany.

Germany--Hamburg.

Germany--Weimar (Thuringia).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 266 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]

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"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : the city and the globe : on remaking German literature

Theater channels : translating the British Atlantic world for the Hamburg stage

Lessing dethroned : the Hamburg dramaturgy and the eighteenth-century world

Leaving the city : conversion to community, redemption, and literary sociability

Classical Weimar reconsidered : friendship redeemed, foundations laid, and monuments made

Epilogue : in the translation zone or (German) literary studies in the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780271079103

027107910X

OCLC:

985079073