Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction xi
6. 1: Cultural Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
7. Cultural History: An American Refuge for a German Idea 3
8. The Image of Culture — Or, What Münsterberg Saw in the Movies 21
9. Tacitus Redivivus or Taking Stock: A. B. Faust’s Assessment of the German Element in America 43
10. The St. Louis World’s Fair of 1904 as a Site of Cultural Transfer: German and German-American Participation 59
11. 2: In Pursuit of Intellectual Culture
12. Absolute Speculation: The St. Louis Hegelians and the Question of American National Identity 89
13. Reading Alexander von Humboldt: Cosmopolitan Naturalist with an American Spirit 107
14. Nietzsche: Socialist, Anarchist, Feminist 129
15. 3: Translation American Style
16. Domesticated Romance and Capitalist Enterprise: Annis Lee Wister’s Americanization of German Fiction 153
17. Pictures of Travel: Heine in America 183
18. Retroactive Dissimilation: Louis Untermeyer, the “American Heine” 211
19. A Tramp Abroad and at Home: European and American Racism in Mark Twain 233
20. 4: Immigration and Naturalization Acts
21. New Country, Old Secrets: Heinrich Börnstein’s Die Geheimnisse von St. Louis (1851) 249
22. The Americanization of Franz Lieber and the Encyclopedia Americana 273
23. From Domestic Farce to Abolitionist Satire: Reinhold Solger’s Reframing of the Union (1860) 289
24. Contributors 317
25. Index 321