Cusack Johannes Scherr

Mediating Culture in the German Nineteenth Century
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-78744-811-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 221, 204 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Traces the career of the widely read cultural historian Johannes Scherr and his development of a new kind of historical writing for the increasingly globalized 19th-century world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cusack, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Note on Translations and the Use of German Texts
Introduction: The Success and Failure of Johannes Scherr
Scherr's Liminality: Between Nations and Academic Cultures
The Cultural Historian as Mediator
Worlding German Literature
Weltschmerz and Pessimism-Scherr's Old-Age Style
Conclusion: Where Next for Scherr?
Appendix: Overview of Essays in the Menschliche Tragikomödie
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Cusack Andrew:
ANDREW CUSACK is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of St Andrews. He worked previously as an Assistant Professor in Dublin before taking a postdoctoral fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In 2012, he joined the University of St Andrews. He is the author of The Wanderer in Nineteenth-Century German Literature: Intellectual History and Cultural Criticism (2008). Together with Barry Murnane he co-edited the volume Popular Revenants: The German Gothic and Its International Reception, 1800-2000 (2012) and has recently co-edited (with Michael White) a volume entitled Der Fontane-Ton: Stil im Werk Theodor Fontanes (2021). He has published widely on a range of topics in the "long nineteenth century" including articles on Büchner, Fontane, Heine, Mörike, Schiller, and on Karl Philipp Moritz. His second monograph: Johannes Scherr: Mediating Culture in the German Nineteenth Century was published by Camden House in 2021.