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'Relations stop nowhere' : the common literary foundations of German and American literature 1830-1917 /

This book attempts for the first time a comparative literary history of Germany and the USA in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its material does not come from the familiar overlaps of individual German and American writers, but from the work of the literary historians of the two countries af...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ridley, Hugh
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.
Colección:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 109.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preface; PART ONE: GERMAN AND AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY; Chapter 1: Introduction to National Literatures; Chapter 2: The Early Years of German and American Literary History; Chapter 3: Literary History and Democratic Nation Building; Chapter 4: Democracy and Realism; Chapter 5: Hunting for American Aesthetics; Chapter 6: Exclusions from the Canon; Chapter 7: Literary History and Anthropology; PART TWO: THE MID-ATLANTIC SPACE; Chapter 8: The American Heart of Darkness: Charles Sealsfield and the West; Chapter 9: American Idylls beyond Buffalo Bill.