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Author Hohendahl, Peter Uwe, author.

Title Building a national literature : the case of Germany, 1830-1870 / Peter Uwe Hohendahl ; translated by Renate Baron Franciscono
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989

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Description 1 online resource (x, 361 pages)
Contents 1. Introduction: The institution of literature -- 2. The public sphere -- 3. The critique of the liberal public sphere -- 4. The institutionalization of literature and criticism -- 5. Literary tradition and the poetic canon -- 6. The literary canon of the Nachmarz -- 7. The institutionalization of literary history -- 8. Education, schools, and social structure -- 9. Culture for the people -- 10. Epilogue: The road to industrial culture
Summary Building a National Literature boldly takes issue with traditional literary criticism for its failure to explain how literature as a body is created and shaped by institutional forces. Peter Uwe Hohendahl approaches literary history by focusing on the material and ideological structures that determine the canonical status of writers and works. He examines important elements in the making of a national literature, including the political and literary public sphere, the theory and practice of literary criticism, and the emergence of academic criticism as literary history. Hohendahl considers such key aspects of the process in Germany as the rise of liberalism and nationalism, the delineation of the borders of German literature, the idea of its history, the understanding of its cultural function, and the notion of a canon of major and minor authors
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Translated from the German
Subject Liberalism -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
Books and reading -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
Criticism -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
Literature and society -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
Books and reading
Criticism
German literature
Liberalism
Literature and society
Liberalism -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
Books and reading -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
Criticism -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
Literature and society -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Germany
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501705472
1501705474
9781501705465
1501705466
Other Titles Literarische Kultur im Zeitalter des Liberalismus 1830-1870. English