'Relations stop nowhere' : the common literary foundations of German and American literature 1830-1917
This book attempts for the first time a comparative literary history of Germany and the USA in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its material does not come from the familiar overlaps of individual German and American writers, but from the work of the literary historians of the two countries after 1815, when American intellectuals took Germany as a model for their project to create an American national literature. The first part of the book examines fundamental structural affinities between the two literary histories and the common problems these caused, especially in questions of canon
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (317 pages).
9789401204231, 9781429481182, 9401204233, 1429481188
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Preface; PART ONE: GERMAN AND AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY; Chapter 1: Introduction to National Literatures; Chapter 2: The Early Years of German and American Literary History; Chapter 3: Literary History and Democratic Nation Building; Chapter 4: Democracy and Realism; Chapter 5: Hunting for American Aesthetics; Chapter 6: Exclusions from the Canon; Chapter 7: Literary History and Anthropology; PART TWO: THE MID-ATLANTIC SPACE; Chapter 8: The American Heart of Darkness: Charles Sealsfield and the West; Chapter 9: American Idylls beyond Buffalo Bill
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English