Translating the World : Toward a New History of German Literature Around 1800 /
Tautz, Birgit
Translating the World : Toward a New History of German Literature Around 1800 / Birgit Tautz. - 1 online resource (280 p.) - Max Kade Research Institute: Germans Beyond Europe .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The City and the Globe -- 1 Theater Channels -- 2 Lessing Dethroned -- 3 Leaving the City -- 4 Classical Weimar Reconsidered -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In Translating the World, Birgit Tautz provides a new narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Departing from dominant modes of thought regarding the nexus of literary and national imagination, she examines this intersection through the lens of Germany's emerging global networks and how they were rendered in two very different German cities: Hamburg and Weimar.German literary history has tended to employ a conceptual framework that emphasizes the nation or idealized citizenry, yet the experiences of readers in eighteenth-century German cities existed within the context of their local environments, in which daily life occurred and writers such as Lessing, Schiller, and Goethe worked. Hamburg, a flourishing literary city in the late eighteenth century, was eventually relegated to the margins of German historiography, while Weimar, then a small town with an insular worldview, would become mythologized for not only its literary history but its centrality in national German culture. By interrogating the histories of and texts associated with these cities, Tautz shows how literary styles and genres are born of local, rather than national, interaction with the world. Her examination of how texts intersect and interact reveals how they shape and transform the urban cultural landscape as they are translated and move throughout the world.A fresh, elegant exploration of literary translation, discursive shifts, and global cultural changes, Translating the World is an exciting new story of eighteenth-century German culture and its relationship to expanding global networks that will especially interest scholars of comparative literature, German studies, and literary history.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780271080512
10.1515/9780271080512 doi
German literature--History and criticism.--Germany--Hamburg--18th century
German literature--History and criticism.--Germany--Hamburg--19th century
German literature--History and criticism.--Germany--Weimar (Thuringia)--18th century
German literature--History and criticism.--Germany--Weimar (Thuringia)--19th century
Translating and interpreting--History--Germany--18th century.
Translating and interpreting--History--Germany--19th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German.
PT3803.H3 / T38 2017eb
830.9/006
Translating the World : Toward a New History of German Literature Around 1800 / Birgit Tautz. - 1 online resource (280 p.) - Max Kade Research Institute: Germans Beyond Europe .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The City and the Globe -- 1 Theater Channels -- 2 Lessing Dethroned -- 3 Leaving the City -- 4 Classical Weimar Reconsidered -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In Translating the World, Birgit Tautz provides a new narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Departing from dominant modes of thought regarding the nexus of literary and national imagination, she examines this intersection through the lens of Germany's emerging global networks and how they were rendered in two very different German cities: Hamburg and Weimar.German literary history has tended to employ a conceptual framework that emphasizes the nation or idealized citizenry, yet the experiences of readers in eighteenth-century German cities existed within the context of their local environments, in which daily life occurred and writers such as Lessing, Schiller, and Goethe worked. Hamburg, a flourishing literary city in the late eighteenth century, was eventually relegated to the margins of German historiography, while Weimar, then a small town with an insular worldview, would become mythologized for not only its literary history but its centrality in national German culture. By interrogating the histories of and texts associated with these cities, Tautz shows how literary styles and genres are born of local, rather than national, interaction with the world. Her examination of how texts intersect and interact reveals how they shape and transform the urban cultural landscape as they are translated and move throughout the world.A fresh, elegant exploration of literary translation, discursive shifts, and global cultural changes, Translating the World is an exciting new story of eighteenth-century German culture and its relationship to expanding global networks that will especially interest scholars of comparative literature, German studies, and literary history.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780271080512
10.1515/9780271080512 doi
German literature--History and criticism.--Germany--Hamburg--18th century
German literature--History and criticism.--Germany--Hamburg--19th century
German literature--History and criticism.--Germany--Weimar (Thuringia)--18th century
German literature--History and criticism.--Germany--Weimar (Thuringia)--19th century
Translating and interpreting--History--Germany--18th century.
Translating and interpreting--History--Germany--19th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German.
PT3803.H3 / T38 2017eb
830.9/006