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Johannes Scherr: Mediating Culture in the German Nineteenth Century

Johannes Scherr: Mediating Culture in the German Nineteenth Century

Cusack, Andrew

Hardcover

Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, Book 221

Literary CriticismGerman History

ISBN10: 1640140573
ISBN13: 9781640140578
Publisher: Camden House (NY)
Published: Mar 15 2021
Pages: 204
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Traces the career of the widely read cultural historian Johannes Scherr and his development of a new kind of historical writing for the increasingly globalized 19th-century world.

The German nineteenth century saw a boom in publishing and reading that created opportunities not only for Dichter, creators of great literature, but also for Schriftsteller, authors of the second rank. Among the latter were cultural mediators who helped readers negotiate the ever-expanding galaxy of print. Few achieved greater prominence than Johannes Scherr, whose remarkable career as a critic, anthologist, and historian of German and world literature began in the turbulent Vormärz era and continued during years of exile in the unlikely setting of the Zurich Polytechnic. He wrote from the vantage point of Switzerland, but his books were published in Germany, where his polemical style found favor.

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