Description
Book SynopsisA 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.
Trade Review“Concentrating on texts other than the classics of the canon allows for fresh perspectives. If ‘all politics is local,’ so, too, seems culture. Includes impressive bibliography, documentation, and index. Recommended.”
—J. M. Jeep Choice
“Birgit Tautz has written a convincing and powerful book that makes an important contribution to eighteenth-century studies, not only in the field of German literature. Using the idea of a network of urban intellectuals mediated through translated texts, she provides an original and nuanced perspective on emerging global networks in late Enlightenment Europe. Translating the World opens up fascinating possibilities for rethinking eighteenth-century European culture.”
—John K. Noyes,University of Toronto
“Deploying the suggestive neologism Glokalisierung, Tautz’s timely and innovative book places the profoundly local and particular in eighteenth-century Germany (cities as divergent as the tiny, apparently parochial Weimar and the world city Hamburg) into dialogue with national and transnational developments. Translation, gossip, and rumor emerge in her study as potent vectors of sociability that mediate international, national, and local concerns.”
—Catriona MacLeod,author of Fugitive Objects: Sculpture and Literature in the German Nineteenth Century
Table of ContentsContents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
The City and the Globe: On Remaking German literature
Chapter One
Theater Channels: Translating the British Atlantic World for the Hamburg Stage
Chapter Two
Lessing Dethroned: the Hamburg Dramaturgy and the Eighteenth-Century World
Chapter Three
Leaving the City: Conversion to Community, Redemption, and Literary Sociability
Chapter Four
Classical Weimar Reconsidered: Friendship Redeemed, Foundations Laid, and Monuments Made
Epilogue
In the Translation Zone or (German) Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century
Bibliography
Notes
Index
