The wanderer in nineteeth-century German literature : intellectual history and cultural criticism

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The wanderer in nineteeth-century German literature : intellectual history and cultural criticism

Andrew Cusack

（Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture / edited by James Hardin）

Camden House, 2008

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The wanderer in 19th-century German literature

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-249) and index

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Pathbreaking examination of the prominent 19th-c. motif with an eye toward literature as social commentary. The wanderer is an indispensable part of the German cultural imaginary. The nineteenth-century prominence of the motif owes much to the self-conception of the intellectual pioneers of the day as wanderers. The motif is also a keyto interpretation of the social and cultural phenomena of a turbulent century that began with the emancipatory claims of the Enlightenment and ended in untrammeled industrialism. Writers from Goethe to Buchner, Fontane to Holtei were keenly aware of the motif's interpretive value, attempting to grasp with it not only such developments as mass migration and disappearing institutions but also unprecedented opportunities for artistic and scientific innovation. This book re-interprets canonical works such as Goethe's Wilhelm Meister novels, Heine's Harzreise, and Buchner's Lenz, examines underresearched works by Fontane and Raabe, and charts new territory with readings of works by Gotthelf and Holtei -- a selection of texts that reveals the vast scope and changing function of the wanderer motif. Andrew Cusack pays scrupulous attention to the historical specificity of each work and to its relationship to contemporary aesthetic and philosophical currents, revealing the wanderer motif to be a significant vehicle of cultural memory that sustained the ideas of the Enlightenment and of Romanticism. Andrew Cusack is a Lecturer in the Department of Germanic Studies at Trinity College Dublin.

目次

Introduction The Wanderer as the Subject of Education The Wanderer in the Romantic Imagination The Wanderer in Political Discourse Wandering at the Margins: Journeymen and Vagabonds Conclusion Works Cited Index

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