Moving scenes : the aesthetics of German travel writing on England 1783-1830 /

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Author / Creator:Martin, Alison E.
Imprint:London : Legenda, 2008.
Description:x, 187 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in comparative literature ; 13
Studies in comparative literature (Oxford, England) ; 13.
Subject:Travelers' writings, German -- History and criticism.
German prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
German prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Aesthetics, German -- 18th century.
Aesthetics, German -- 19th century.
Reiseliteratur
Aesthetics, German.
German prose literature.
Travel.
Travelers' writings, German.
England -- Description and travel.
Deutsch
England (Motiv)
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7541468
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ISBN:9781906540081 (hbk.)
190654008X (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliography and index.
In English and German.
Summary:"Accounts of travel to England reached unprecedented heights of popularity in the German states in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Travel writers competed to produce travelogues which offered the most authentic, original and vibrant picture of England. The wider range of narrative strategies which travellers consequently deployed increasingly drew on the emotional responses of their audience - whether to serve a political purpose, show concern for the darker side to the Industrial Revolution or simply demonstrate the humanitarian interests of the travellers themselves. In this study, Alison E. Martin draws on a variety of travellers, men and women, canonical and forgotten, to chart the fascinating variety of styles and approaches which mark this highly interdisciplinary genre."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Theatre and Orality in Karl Philipp MoritzÆs Reisen eines Deutschen in England im Jahr 1782
  • 2. Female Enquiry and the Ordering of Knowledge: Sophie von La Roche and the Problem of Sensibility
  • 3. æDie Feder soll unser Sprachrohr seynÆ: Esther GadÆs Briefe wahrend meines Aufenthalts in England und Portugal
  • 4. Light and Landscape in Carl Gottlieb HorstigÆs Reise nach Frankreich, England und Holland zu Anfange des Jahres 1803
  • 5. Sympathy and Spectacle: Visual Representation in Johanna SchopenhauerÆs Reise durch England und Schottland
  • 6. August Hermann Niemeyer: æDie bodenlose Tiefe der menschlichen seeleÆ
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index