Old-school transnationalism? On references to familiar authors in world literary history: East(-Central) European literature as presented by Johannes Scherr
Journal: Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University)
Year: 2018

Starting from Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer’s deliberately transnational History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe (2004-2010), this article explores the ‘transnationality’ of Johannes Scherr’s (re)presentation of the young East European literatures in his Allgemeine Geschichte der Literatur (1851), the first edition of what would become the most successful of the then booming genre of world literary history. One of Scherr’s strategies to ‘open up’ the unfamiliar literatures