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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136646803321

Autore

Hohendahl Peter Uwe

Titolo

Building a National Literature : The Case of Germany, 1830 - 1870 / / Peter Uwe Hohendahl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, N.Y. : , : Cornell University Press, , [2016]

©1989

ISBN

9781501705465

1501705466

9781501705472

1501705474

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Altri autori (Persone)

FrancisconoRenate Baron

Disciplina

830/.9/007

Soggetti

Books and reading - Germany - History - 19th century

Criticism - Germany - History - 19th century

Liberalism - Germany - History - 19th century

Literature and society - Germany - History - 19th century

Anthologies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: The Institution of Literature -- 2. The Public Sphere -- 3 . The Critique of the Liberal Public Sphere -- 4. The Institutionalization of Literature and Criticism -- 5. Literary Tradition and the Poetic Canon -- 6. The Literary Canon of the Nachmärz -- 7. The Institutionalization of Literary History -- 8. Education, Schools, and Social Structure -- 9. Culture for the People -- 10. Epilogue: The Road to Industrial Culture -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Building a National Literature boldly takes issue with traditional literary criticism for its failure to explain how literature as a body is created and shaped by institutional forces. Peter Uwe Hohendahl approaches literary history by focusing on the material and ideological structures that determine the canonical status of writers and works. He examines important elements in the making of a national literature, including the political and literary public sphere, the theory and practice of literary



criticism, and the emergence of academic criticism as literary history. Hohendahl considers such key aspects of the process in Germany as the rise of liberalism and nationalism, the delineation of the borders of German literature, the idea of its history, the understanding of its cultural function, and the notion of a canon of major and minor authors.