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

Published by De Gruyter 2013

(Re-)Writing the Radical

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

Edited by: Maike Oergel

Volume 32 in the series spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110290110

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

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of German, French and English Literature, Historians
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 272
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 9
Keywords: Cultural Transfer; French Revolution; Enlightenment; Romanticism; Comparative Studies

eBook

Published: December 19, 2012
ISBN: 9783110290110

Hardcover

Published: December 13, 2012
ISBN: 9783110289855