Traces the career of the widely read cultural historian Johannes
Scherr and his development of a new kind of historical writing for
the increasingly globalized 19th-century world. The German
nineteenth century saw a boom in publishing and reading that
created opportunities not only for Dichter, creators of great
literature, but also for Schriftsteller, authors of the second
rank. Among the latter were cultural mediators who helped readers
negotiate the ever-expanding galaxy of print. Few achieved greater
prominence than Johannes Scherr, whose remarkable career as a
critic, anthologist, and historian of German and world literature
began in the turbulent Vormarz era and continued during years of
exile in the unlikely setting of the Zurich Polytechnic. He wrote
from the vantage point of Switzerland, but his books were published
in Germany, where his polemical style found favor. Andrew Cusack's
study traces the process of Scherr's literary socialization as
mediator in the "contact zone" formed by the Kingdom of Wurttemberg
and Switzerland, whose liberal project of Volksbildung inspired
him. It considers how his liminal position between nations and
between the humanities and the sciences led him to develop a form
of historical authorship for the increasingly globalized nineteenth
century. The book considers Scherr's engagement with the totalizing
paradigms of cultural history and world literature and sets his
pessimistic worldview in the context of the materialism and violent
political agitation that threatened democratic values in
Switzerland and elsewhere.
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