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

by Matt Erlin

Essays examining the circulation and adaptation of German culture in the United States during the long 19th century.

Building on recent trends in the humanities and especially on scholarship done under the rubric of cultural transfer, this volume emphasizes the processes by which Americans took up, responded to, and transformed German cultural material for their own purposes. The fourteen essays by scholars from the US and Germany treat such...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571133089
• ISBN13: 9781571133083
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"