German culture in nineteenth-century America
Subtitle: reception, adaptation, transformation
By: edited and introduced by Lynne Tatlock and Matt Erlin.
Contributors: Tatlock, Lynne, 1950-; Erlin, Matt.
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture; Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Culture diffusion -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Americanization -- History -- 19th century; Acculturation -- United States -- History -- 19th century; German American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; United States -- Relations -- Germany; Germany -- Relations -- United States; United States -- Civilization -- German influences; United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Description: "This volume examines the circulation and adaptation of German culture in the United States during the so-called long nineteenth century - the century of mass German migration to the new world, of industrialization and new technologies, American westward expansion and Civil War, German struggle toward national unity and civil rights, and increasing literacy on both sides of the Atlantic. Building on recent trends in the humanities and especially on scholarship done under the rubric of cultural transfer, German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America places its emphasis on the processes by which Americans took up, responded to, and transformed German cultural material for their own purposes. Informed by a conception of culture as multivalent, permeable, and protean, the book focuses on the mechanisms, agents, and means of mediation between cultural spaces."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cultural history : an American refuge for a German idea / Hinrich C. Seeba; title: The image of culture, or, What Münsterberg saw in the movies / Eric Ames; title: Tacitus Redivivus, or, Taking stock : A.B. Faust's assessment of the German element in America / Claudia Liebrand; title: The St. Louis World's Fair of 1904 as a site of cultural transfer : German and German-American participation / Paul Michael Lützeler; title: Absolute speculation : the St. Louis Hegelians and the question of American national identity / Matt Erlin; title: Reading Alexander von Humboldt : cosmopolitan naturalist with an American spirit / Kirsten Belgum; title: Nietzsche : socialist, anarchist, feminist / Robert C. Holub; title: Domestic/ated romance and capitalist enterprise : Annis Lee Wister's Americanization of German fiction / Lynne Tatlock; title: Pictures of travel : Heine in America / Jeffrey Grossman; title: Retroactive dissimilation : Louis Untermeyer, the "American Heine" / Jeffrey L. Sammons; title: A tramp abroad and at home : European and American racism in Mark Twain / Linda Rugg; title: New country, old secrets : Heinrich Börnstein's Die Geheimnisse von St. Louis (1851) / Gerhild Scholz Williams; title: The Americanization of Franz Lieber and the Encyclopedia americana / Gerhard Weiss; title: From domestic farce to abolitionist satire : Reinhold Solger's Reframing of the union (1860) / Lorie A. Vanchena.