English and American Imitations of Goethe's Werther

English and American Imitations of Goethe's Werther
Title English and American Imitations of Goethe's Werther PDF eBook
Author Orie William Long
Publisher
Pages 34
Release 1916
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The Reinterpretation of American Literature

The Reinterpretation of American Literature
Title The Reinterpretation of American Literature PDF eBook
Author Norman Foerster
Publisher
Pages 300
Release 1928
Genre American literature
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Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L

Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L
Title Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L PDF eBook
Author O. Classe
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 930
Release 2000
Genre Authors
ISBN 9781884964367

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The Americana

The Americana
Title The Americana PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 936
Release 1923
Genre Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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We Shall Be No More

We Shall Be No More
Title We Shall Be No More PDF eBook
Author Richard Bell
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 320
Release 2012-03-20
Genre History
ISBN 0674068696

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Suicide is a quintessentially individual act, yet one with unexpectedly broad social implications. Though seen today as a private phenomenon, in the uncertain aftermath of the American Revolution this personal act seemed to many to be a public threat that held no less than the fate of the fledgling Republic in its grip. Salacious novelists and eager newspapermen broadcast images of a young nation rapidly destroying itself. Parents, physicians, ministers, and magistrates debated the meaning of self-destruction and whether it could (or should) be prevented. Jailers and justice officials rushed to thwart condemned prisoners who made halters from bedsheets, while abolitionists used slave suicides as testimony to both the ravages of the peculiar institution and the humanity of its victims. Struggling to create a viable political community out of extraordinary national turmoil, these interest groups invoked self-murder as a means to confront the most consequential questions facing the newly united states: What is the appropriate balance between individual liberty and social order? Who owns the self? And how far should the control of the state (or the church, or a husband, or a master) extend over the individual? With visceral prose and an abundance of evocative primary sources, Richard Bell lays bare the ways in which self-destruction in early America was perceived as a transgressive challenge to embodied authority, a portent of both danger and possibility. His unique study of suicide between the Revolution and Reconstruction uncovers what was at stake—personally and politically—in the nation’s fraught first decades.

(Re-)Writing the Radical

(Re-)Writing the Radical
Title (Re-)Writing the Radical PDF eBook
Author Maike Oergel
Publisher Walter de Gruyter
Pages 283
Release 2012-12-19
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3110290111

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The essays in this volume discuss the overlap between philosophical, aesthetic, and political concerns in the 1790s either in the work of individuals or in the transfer of cultural materials across national borders, which tended to entail adaptation and transformation. What emerges is a clearer understanding of the “fate” of the Enlightenment, its radicalization and its “overcoming” in aesthetic and political terms, and of the way in which political “paranoia”, generated by the fear of a spreading revolutionary radicalism, facilitated and influenced the cultural transfer of the “radical”. The collection will be of interest to scholars in French, German, English, and comparative studies working on the later 18th century or early 19th century. It is of particular interest to those working on the impact of the French Revolution, those engaged in reception studies, and those researching the interface between political and cultural activites. It is also of key interest to intellectual historians of this period, as well as general historians with an interest in modern conservatism and radicalism.

Studies in Philology

Studies in Philology
Title Studies in Philology PDF eBook
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Pages 508
Release 1926
Genre Electronic journals
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