German culture in nineteenth-century America

reception, adaptation, transformation

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German culture in nineteenth-century America

reception, adaptation, transformation

"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, German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America places its emphasis on the processes by which Americans took up, responded to, and transformed German cultural material for their own purposes. Informed by a conception of culture as multivalent, permeable, and protean, the book focuses on the mechanisms, agents, and means of mediation between cultural spaces."--BOOK JACKET.

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Camden House
Language
English
Pages
336

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Table of Contents

Cultural history : an American refuge for a German idea / Hinrich C. Seeba
The image of culture, or, What Münsterberg saw in the movies / Eric Ames
Tacitus Redivivus, or, Taking stock : A.B. Faust's assessment of the German element in America / Claudia Liebrand
The St. Louis World's Fair of 1904 as a site of cultural transfer : German and German-American participation / Paul Michael Lützeler
Absolute speculation : the St. Louis Hegelians and the question of American national identity / Matt Erlin
Reading Alexander von Humboldt : cosmopolitan naturalist with an American spirit / Kirsten Belgum
Nietzsche : socialist, anarchist, feminist / Robert C. Holub
Domestic/ated romance and capitalist enterprise : Annis Lee Wister's Americanization of German fiction / Lynne Tatlock
Pictures of travel : Heine in America / Jeffrey Grossman
Retroactive dissimilation : Louis Untermeyer, the "American Heine" / Jeffrey L. Sammons
A tramp abroad and at home : European and American racism in Mark Twain / Linda Rugg
New country, old secrets : Heinrich Börnstein's Die Geheimnisse von St. Louis (1851) / Gerhild Scholz Williams
The Americanization of Franz Lieber and the Encyclopedia americana / Gerhard Weiss
From domestic farce to abolitionist satire : Reinhold Solger's Reframing of the union (1860) / Lorie A. Vanchena.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Rochester, NY
Series
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture, Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
303.48/273043/09034
Library of Congress
E183.8.G3 G44 2005, E183.8.G3G44 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 336 p. :
Number of pages
336

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3396993M
Internet Archive
isbn_1571133089
ISBN 10
1571133089
LCCN
2005009637
OCLC/WorldCat
59280144
LibraryThing
575406
Goodreads
2067427

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Work ID
OL18322097W

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