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

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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Main Author: Ridley, Hugh
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.
Series:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 109.
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Summary: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 after 1815, when American intellectuals took Germany as a model for their project to create an American national literature. The first part of the book examines fundamental structural affinities between the two literary histories and the common problems these caused, especially in questions of canon.
Physical Description:1 online resource (317 pages).
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-308) and index.
ISBN:9789401204231
9401204233
9781429481182
1429481188
ISSN:0929-6999 ;
Language:English.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
Action Note:digitized