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A Serious Matter and True Joy
This book offers a novel approach to the history of high culture and new perspectives on the history of civil society in provincial Germany. It makes the concept of place a central means for understanding how art culture was defined, consumed, and, importantly, distributed over the course of the long nineteenth century. It shows how “temples of culture” come to be built where they were built. It further demonstrates who participated in their planning, funding, construction, and ultimate evolution into public institutions, highlighting underexamined links between the history of art culture and that of urban history and civil society.
Worldly Provincialism
Worldly Provincialism introduces readers to German anthropology during the age of empire and illustrates how the initial motives and interests that gave birth to German anthropology were channeled and shaped by contexts as various as romantic voyages in the South Pacific, the Herero wars in Southwest Africa, open-air presentations of exotic peoples in Berlin, and prison camps during World War I. It also shows that Germans' unique intellectual traditions, their emphasis on concepts of culture, and the late arrival of both the German nation-state and the German colonial empire affected their interest in and relationships with non-Europeans. Worldly Provincialism confirms that there is no justi...
Objects of Culture
In the late nineteenth century, Germans spearheaded a worldwide effort to preserve the material traces of humanity, designing major ethnographic museums and building extensive networks of communication and exchange across the globe. In this groundbreaking study, Glenn Penny explores the appeal of ethnology in Imperial Germany and analyzes the motivations of the scientists who created the ethnographic museums. Penny shows that German ethnologists were not driven by imperialist desires or an interest in legitimating putative biological or racial hierarchies. Overwhelmingly antiracist, they aspired to generate theories about the essential nature of human beings through their museums' collection...
Benedikte Naubert (1756-1819) and Her Relations to English Culture
The 18th century saw the first significant phase of cultural interchange between Britain and Germany. This study examines the part played in this process by women writers, who were entering the literary world in large numbers for the first time. It asks whether women whether a cross-cultural female literary tradition emerged during the period.
Schreiben lernen im Sozialismus
Zur Geschichte der einzigen staatlichen Schriftstellerhochschule in der DDR und ihrer Funktion und Bedeutung im literarischen Raum der DDR. Das Leipziger Institut für Literatur »Johannes R. Becher« ist eine Schlüsselinstitution der DDR-Literaturhistorie. 1955 in der DDR gegründet, wurden hier unter den Bedingungen einer normativ dominanten Herrschaftsstruktur Prozesse und Formen des literarischen Schreibens gefördert und vermittelt. Knapp 1000 Absolventen, darunter einige später namhafte DDR-Autoren (Werner Bräunig, Adolf Endler, Rainer und Sarah Kirsch, Erich Loest, Fred Wander), wurden am Becher-Institut zwischen 1955 und 1993 literaturpädagogisch und intellektuell sozialisiert. Die Fäden von fast vierzig Jahren Literaturgeschichte der DDR laufen an einem Ort zusammen, wo ideologische Doktrin, künstlerischer Auftrag und das Streben nach ästhetisch-poetischen Freiräumen im konfliktträchtigen Widerspruch standen.
