3: Reading Stifter in America

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: A Transnational Literary Field in the Age of Nationalism 1
5. 1: The Passion of Johannes Scherr: Historiography as Trauma 22
6. 2: Between Integration and Differentiation: On the Relationship between German and Austrian Literature in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 39
7. 3: Reading Stifter in America 59
8. 4: Travel Writing and Transnational Marketing: How Ida Pfeiffer brought the World to Austria and Beyond 79
9. 5: Ernst Brausewetter’s Meisternovellen Deutscher Frauen (1897–98): Gender, Genre, and (Inter)National Aspiration 108
10. 6: Arbiter of Nation? The Strange Case of Hans Müller-Casenov’s The Humour of Germany (1892/1893) 130
11. 7: Visualizing the End: Nation, Empire, and Neo-Roman Mimesis in Keller and Fontane 149
12. 8: Eurocentric Cosmopolitanism in Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks 170
13. 9: European Peace from a Transatlantic Perspective: Victor Hugo and Bertha von Suttner 188
14. 10: Hermann Graf Keyserling and Gu Hongming’s Ethics of World Culture: Confucianism, Monarchism, and Anti-Colonialism 208
15. 11: Constructing Symphonic Worlds: Gustav Mahler, Weltliteratur, and the Musical Program 228
16. 12: The Garb of National Literature: Transnational Identities and the Early Twentieth-Century Schriftstreit 250
17. 13: From European Symbolism to German Gesture: The International and Transnational Nationalism of Stefan George’s Blätter für die Kunst 270
18. 14: Canon Fire: Dada’s Attack on National Literature 297
19. Selected Bibliography 315
20. Notes on the Contributors 321
21. Index 325