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Author:

Tautz, Birgit, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

The Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

pages cm.

Subject:

German literature--Hamburg--Hamburg--18th century--History and criticism.
German literature--Hamburg--Hamburg--19th century--History and criticism.
German literature--Weimar (Thuringia)--Weimar (Thuringia)--18th century--History and criticism.
German literature--Weimar (Thuringia)--Weimar (Thuringia)--19th century--History and criticism.
Translating and interpreting--Germany--History--18th century.
Translating and interpreting--Germany--History--19th century.
German literature.
Translating and interpreting.
Germany.
Germany--Hamburg.
Germany--Weimar (Thuringia)
1700-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

Series:

The Max Kade Research Institute series: Germans beyond Europe

ISBN:

027107910X
9780271079103

OCLC:

(OCoLC)985079073

LCCN:

2017030921

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)