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Bluestocking feminism and British-German cultural transfer, 1750-1837 / Alessa Johns.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johns, Alessa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminism--Europe--History--18th century.
- Feminism.
- Social change--Europe--History--18th century.
- Social change.
- Culture diffusion--Europe--History--18th century.
- Culture diffusion.
- European literature--18th century.
- European literature.
- Civilization.
- History.
- Great Britain--Civilization--18th century.
- Great Britain.
- Germany--Civilization--18th century.
- Germany.
- Great Britain--Relations--Germany.
- Relations.
- Germany--Relations--Great Britain.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Bluestocking Feminism and British-German Cultural Transfer, 1750-1837 examines the processes of cultural transfer between Britain and Germany during the Personal Union, the period from 1714 to 1837 when the kings of England were simultaneously electors of Hanover. While scholars have generally focused on the political and diplomatic implications of the Personal Union, Alessa Johns offers a new Perspective by tracing sociocultural repercussions and invenstigating how, in the period of the American and French Revolutions, Britain and Germany generated distinct discourses of liberty even though they were norevolutionary countries. British and German reformists-feminists in particular-used the period's expanded pathways of cultural transfer to generate new discourses as well as to articulate new views of what personal freedom, national character, and international interaction might be. John traces four pivotal moments of the book trade, the rage for translation, the effect of revolution on intra-European travel and travel writing, and the impact of transatlantic journeys on vision of reform. Johns reveals the way in which what she terms "bluestocking transnationalism" spawned discourses of liberty during this period of enormous economic development, revolution, and war. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 The Book as Cosmopolitan Object: Anna Vandenhoeck, Publisher, and Philippine Charlotte of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Collector 17
- 2 Translation Following Clarissa: Georg Forster and Meta Forkel, Mary Wollstonecraft and Joseph Johnson 39
- 3 Representing Vesuvius: Northern European Tourists and the Napoleonic Culture of War 88
- 4 Travel and Transfer: Anna Jameson and Transnational Spurs to European Reform 121.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-220) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472120475
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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