German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America. Reception, Adaptation, Transformation.

• Lothar Hönnighausen

This collection of fourteen essays is not only of interest to Germanists but also to Americanists who, in the last two decades, have paid more attention to the multi-lingual and multi-ethnic character of nineteenth America. Germanists and Americanists apparently share not only the current predilection for Cultural Studies but also the underlying methodological assumptions. Thus it is hardly to be wondered at that Lynne Tatlock and Matt Erlin regard national literatures and cultures as “constructed” and as “hybrid products of a transnational dialogue.” Emphasizing the volatile nature of such processes as the reception, adaptation and transformation of cultural materials and finding cultural transfer (Michel Espagne, Michael Werner) a useful category of analysis, they make the means and modes of this transfer the focus of their volume.

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