Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters (eBook, PDF)

Perspectives on Exchange in the Sattelzeit
Redaktion: Wood, Michael; Jung, Sandro

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on particular cases of Anglo-German exchange in the period known as the Sattelzeit (1750-1850), this volume of essays explores how drama and poetry played a central role in the development of British and German literary cultures. With increased numbers of people studying foreign languages, engaging in translation work, and traveling between Britain and Germany, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries gave rise to unprecedented opportunities for intercultural encounters and transnational dialogues. While most research on Anglo-German exchange has focused on the novel, this volume seeks to reposition drama and poetry within discourses of national identity, intercultural transfer, and World Literature. The essays in the collection cohere in affirming the significance of poetry and drama as literary forms that shaped German and British cultures in the period. The essays also consider the nuanced movement of texts and ideas across genres and cultures, the formation and reception of poetic personae, and the place of illustration in cross-cultural, textual exchange.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611464733
• Artikelnr.: 74831332

Autorenporträt

Sandro Jung is distinguished professor of English at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and past president of the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Michael Wood is British Academy postdoctoral fellow in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Illustrations and Tables
Note on the Text
Introduction: Traditions and Genres in Dialogue
Michael Wood
Chapter One: British Ghosts of the Gothic Novel: Dramatic Adaptation as a
Medium of Anglo-German Cultural Transfer in the 1790s
Barry Murnane
Chapter Two: "From Scotland New Come Home": Scottish Ghosts and Afterlives
of Bürger's "Lenore"
Lucy Wood
Chapter Three: Of German Genres and Scottish Sentiments: Henry Mackenzie,
Walter Scott, and the Schauspiel
Michael Wood
Chapter Four: Kotzebue's Adaptations of English Comedies: Colman,
Cumberland, and Conservatism after 1815
Johannes Birgfeld
Chapter Five: Surveying Shakespeare's Impact on German Drama: Taking a
Computational Approach to an Epoch
Nils Reiter and Marcus Willand
Chapter Six: Milton in Germany: Translation and Creative Response
John Guthrie
Chapter Seven: The Female Body in Text and Image: Amelia, Lavinia, and
Musidora in the German Translations of Thomson's The Seasons and Beyond
Sandro Jung
Chapter Eight: Student Experiences: John Stuart Blackie and William
Edmonstoune Aytoun in Germany (1829-30 and 1833-34)
Bernhard Maier
Select Bibliography
Index
About the Authors