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The Wanderer in Nineteenth-Century German Literature - Intellectual History & Cultural Criticism (Hardcover)
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The Wanderer in Nineteenth-Century German Literature - Intellectual History & Cultural Criticism (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Pathbreaking examination of the prominent 19th-c. motif with an eye
toward literature as social commentary. The wanderer is an
indispensable part of the German cultural imaginary. The
nineteenth-century prominence of the motif owes much to the
self-conception of the intellectual pioneers of the day as
wanderers. The motif is also a keyto interpretation of the social
and cultural phenomena of a turbulent century that began with the
emancipatory claims of the Enlightenment and ended in untrammeled
industrialism. Writers from Goethe to Buchner, Fontane to Holtei
were keenly aware of the motif's interpretive value, attempting to
grasp with it not only such developments as mass migration and
disappearing institutions but also unprecedented opportunities for
artistic and scientific innovation. This book re-interprets
canonical works such as Goethe's Wilhelm Meister novels, Heine's
Harzreise, and Buchner's Lenz, examines underresearched works by
Fontane and Raabe, and charts new territory with readings of works
by Gotthelf and Holtei -- a selection of texts that reveals the
vast scope and changing function of the wanderer motif. Andrew
Cusack pays scrupulous attention to the historical specificity of
each work and to its relationship to contemporary aesthetic and
philosophical currents, revealing the wanderer motif to be a
significant vehicle of cultural memory that sustained the ideas of
the Enlightenment and of Romanticism. Andrew Cusack is a Lecturer
in the Department of Germanic Studies at Trinity College Dublin.
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