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(Re- )writing the radical : enlightenment, revolution and cultural transfer in 1790s Germany, Britain and France /

The essays in this volume discuss the overlap between philosophical, aesthetic, and political concerns in the 1790s either in the work of individuals or in the transfer of cultural materials across national borders, which tended to entail adaptation and transformation. What emerges is a clearer unde...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Oergel, Maike, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2012.
Colección:Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Foreword; Introduction; 'That war with softer cares may be united': Harriet Lee, Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, the Thirty Years' War, and the Politics of Adaptation; From Sentiment to Sexuality: English Werther-Stories, the French Revolution, and German Vampires; Radical Translations: Dubious Anglo-German Cultural Transfer in the 1790s; Goethe and Schiller, Peasants and Students: Weimar and the French Revolution; Revolution, Abolition, Aesthetic Sublimation: German Responses to News from France in the 1790s; Print and Preserve: Periodicals in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany.
  • Aesthetics and Politics in the Journal London und Paris (1798-1815)Changing Authorities on HMS Bounty: The Public Images of William Bligh and Fletcher Christian in the Context of Late Eighteenth-Century Political and Intellectual Conditions; A Fictional Response to the Categorical Imperative: Women Refugees, Servants, and Slaves in Charrière's Trois Femmes; Sade, Revolution, and the Boundaries of Freedom; Impossible Crossings: Friedrich Hölderlin's Hyperion and the Aesthetic Foundation of Democracy; Événements de Circonstance: The Classical Tradition in the Age of Revolution.
  • Detours of Knowledge: Aspects of Novalis' Aesthetic EpistemologyChallenging Time(s): Memory, Politics, and the Philosophy of Time in Jean Paul's Quintus Fixlein; Xavier de Maistre and Angelology; Introducing the Songs with Inspiration: William Blake, Lavater, and the Legacy of Felix Hess; The Contributors.