"Relations stop nowhere" : the common literary foundations of German and American literature 1830-1917
"This book attempts for the first time a comparative literary history of Germany and the USA in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its material does not come from the familiar overlaps of individual German and American writers, but from the work of the literary historians of the two countries after 1815, when American intellectuals look Germany as a model for their project to create an American national literature. The first part of the book examines fundamental structural affinities between the two literary histories and the common problems these caused, especially in questions of canon, realism, aesthetics and in the marginalization of popular and women's writing. In the second part, significant figures whose work straddle the two literatures - from Sealsfield and Melville, Whitman and Thomas Mann to Nietzsche, Emerson and Bellow - are discussed in detail, and the arguments of the first part are shown in their relevance to understanding major writers."--Jacket
Criticism, interpretation, etc
317 pages ; 22 cm.
9789042021839, 9042021837
137248780
German and American literary history
Introduction to national literatures
The early years of German and American literary history
Literary history and democratic nation building
Democracy and realism
Hunting for American aesthetics
Exclusions from the canon
Literary history and anthropology
The mid-Atlantic space
The American heart of darkness : Charles Sealsfield and the West
American idylls beyond Buffalo Bill
Emerson in the German and American traditions
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