Title German culture in nineteenth-century America : reception, adaptation, transformation / edited and introduced by Lynne Tatlock and Matt Erlin

Published Rochester, NY : Camden House, [2005] ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 336 pages) Series Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture 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 Summary Building on recent trends in the humanities and especially on scholarship done under the rubric of cultural transfer, this volume emphasizes the processes by which Americans took up, responded to, and transformed German cultural material for their own purposes. The fourteen essays by scholars from the US and Germany treat such topics as translation, the reading of German literature in America, the adaptation of German ideas and educational ideals, the reception and transformation of European genres of writing, and the status of the "German" and the "European" in celebrations of American culture and criticisms of American racism. The volume contributes to the ongoing re-conception of American culture as significantly informed by non-English-speaking European cultures. It also participates in the efforts of historians and literary scholars to re-theorize the construction of national cultures. Questions regarding hybridity, cultural agency, and strategies of acculturation have long been at the center of postcolonial studies, but as this volume demonstrates, these phenomena are not merely operative in encounters between colonizers and colonized: they are also fundamental to the early American reception and appropriation of German cultural materials Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Culture diffusion -- United States -- History -- 19th century Americanization -- History -- 19th century Acculturation -- United States -- History -- 19th century German American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization. Acculturation. Americanization. Civilization -- German influences. Culture diffusion. German American literature. German literature. Intellectual life. International relations. Kulturbeziehungen Kultur Rezeption Deutsche Deutsch Literatur Cultuurspreiding. Acculturatie. Culturele invloeden. Duitsers. SUBJECT United States -- Relations -- Germany Germany -- Relations -- United States United States -- Civilization -- German influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139960 United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054609 Subject Germany. United States. USA Deutschland Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Form Electronic book Author Tatlock, Lynne, 1950- editor. Erlin, Matt, editor. LC no. 2005009637 ISBN 9781571136657 1571136657

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