The Wanderer in Nineteenth-Century German Literature: Intellectual History & Cultural Criticism

by Andrew Cusack and Professor Andrew Cusack

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571133860
• ISBN13: 9781571133861
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"