(Re-)Writing the Radical: Enlightenment, Revolution and Cultural Transfer in 1790s Germany, Britain and France

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(Re-)Writing the Radical

Enlightenment, Revolution and Cultural Transfer in 1790s Germany, Britain and France

Edited by: Maike Oergel

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2013

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Volume 32 | spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature

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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 understanding of the “fate” of the Enlightenment, its radicalization and its “overcoming” in aesthetic and political terms, and of the way in which political “paranoia”, generated by the fear of a spreading revolutionary radicalism, facilitated and influenced the cultural transfer of the “radical”.

The collection will be of interest to scholars in French, German, English, and comparative studies working on the later 18th century or early 19thcentury. It is of particular interest to those working on the impact of the French Revolution, those engaged in reception studies, and those researching the interface between political and cultural activites. It is also of key interest to intellectual historians of this period, as well as general historians with an interest in modern conservatism and radicalism.

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Maike Oergel, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Elinor Shaffer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	vii
(Re-)Writing the Radical: Enlightenment, Revolution and Cultural Transfer in 1790s Germany, Britain and France Introduction Maike Oergel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
‘That war with softer cares may be united’: Harriet Lee, Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, the Thirty Years’ War, and the Politics of Adaptation Imke Heuer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
From Sentiment to Sexuality: English Werther-Stories, the French Revolution, and German Vampires Susanne Kord Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	25
Radical Translations: Dubious Anglo-German Cultural Transfer in the 1790s Barry Murnane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	44
Goethe and Schiller, Peasants and Students: Weimar and the French Revolution W. Daniel Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	61
Revolution, Abolition, Aesthetic Sublimation: German Responses to News from France in the 1790s Birgit Tautz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	72
Print and Preserve: Periodicals in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany Renata Schellenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	88
Aesthetics and Politics in the Journal London und Paris (1798–1815) Christian Deuling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	102
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 Maike Oergel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	119
A Fictional Response to the Categorical Imperative: Women Refugees, Servants and Slaves in Charrière’s Trois femmes Judith Still Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	142
Sade, Revolution, and the Boundaries of Freedom Melissa Deininger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
Impossible Crossings: Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hyperion and the Aesthetic Foundation of Democracy Jakob Ladegaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	170
Événements de circonstance: The Classical Tradition in the Age of Revolution Ian Macgregor Morris and Uta Degner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	186
Detours of Knowledge: Aspects of Novalis’ Aesthetic Epistemology Peter Krilles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	204
Challenging Time(s): Memory, Politics, and the Philosophy of Time in Jean Paul’s Quintus Fixlein Dirk Göttsche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	219
Xavier de Maistre and Angelology David Mccallam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	239
Introducing the Songs with Inspiration: William Blake, Lavater, and the Legacy of Felix Hess Sibylle Erle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	251
The Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	270

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eBook published on:

December 19, 2012

eBook ISBN:

9783110290110

Hardcover published on:

December 13, 2012

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110289855

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Front matter:

9

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272

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9

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110290110

eBook ISBN: 9783110290110

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110289855

Keywords for this book

Cultural Transfer; French Revolution; Enlightenment; Romanticism; Comparative Studies

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Scholars of German, French and English Literature, Historians

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