Description:
A narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Examines the intersection of literary and national imagination through the lens of Germany's emerging global networks and how they were rendered in two very different German cities: Hamburg and Weimar.
Brief description: Birgit Tautz is Professor of German at Bowdoin College. She is the author of Reading and Seeing Ethnic Differences in the Enlightenment: From China to Africa.
Review Quotes:
"Concentrating on texts other than the classics of the canon allows for fresh perspectives. If 'all politics is local, ' so, too, seems culture. Includes impressive bibliography, documentation, and index. Recommended."
--J. M. Jeep Choice