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Fontane and Cultural Mediation Translation and Reception in Nineteenth-Century German Literature
208 Pages
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Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
204 Pages
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Routledge
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In the mid-1880s, the Realist author and Anglophile Theodor Fontane observed: ‘nowhere is so much translation done as in Germany.’ Characterizing Germany as a special locus of literary translation and reception, Fontane contests a prejudice which has since become a significant problem for nineteenth-century German studies, namely the frequent assessment of the epoch as narrowly national. The... Read more
Fontaine and Cultural Mediation
Biography
Ritchie Robertson is Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature and Fellow of The Queen’s College, the University of Oxford. Michael White is a lecturer in the School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews.
