"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.
Bibliography
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.
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