tatlock lynne erlin matt editors (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Dark blue cloth on boards with gilt lettering to spine. Book is tight, square, particularly sharp-cornered and free of markings and flaws inside and out - would be fine but for some very faint spots to front cover. Spotless inside. Unclipped pictorial Dust Jacket shows no scuffing or shelfwear - Fine. This volume examines the circulation and adaptation of German culture in the United States during the so-called long nineteenth century - the century of mass German migration to the new world, of industrialization and new technologies, American westward expansion and Civil War, German struggle toward national unity and civil rights, and increasing literacy on both sides of the Atlantic. Building on recent trends in the humanities and especially on scholarship done under the rubric of cultural transfer, this book places its emphasis on the processes by which Americans took up, responded to, and transformed German cultural material for their own purposes. Fourteen essays written by scholars from the United States and Germany treat such critical issues as translation, the circulation and reading of German books and magazines in America, the adaptation of German ideas and educational ideals in various public forums and institutions, the reception and transformation of European genres of writing such as serialized crime fiction and the encyclopedia, and the status of the "German" and the "European" in celebrations of American culture and criticisms of American racism. Contributors include: Hinrich C. Seeba, Eric Ames, Claudia Liebrand, Paul Michael Lutzeler, Kirsten Belgum, Robert C. Holub, Jeffrey Grossman, Jeffrey L. Sammons, Linda Rugg, Gerhild Scholz Williams, Gerhard Weiss, Lorie Vanchena. Lynne Tatlock is Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor in the Humanities and Matt Erlin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, both at Washington University in St. Louis. Purchased from the Hamlin estate - Cyrus Hamlin was a professor of German literature at Yale. Hard to find in the USA - already here so lower shipping charge.