18th Century – EGS

February 26, 2020 Nicola 18th Century, 19th Century, Bibliographic, Multilingualism, Secondary

Li, Shuangzhi, ‘Konstruktion einer Seelenverwandtschaft als Beitrag zur Kanonbildung: Eine Betrachtung der Goethe-Auffassungen von deutschen Sinologen’, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, vol. 54, issue 2 (2018), pp. 231-246.

Suggested by Erica Zou.

February 26, 2020 Nicola 18th Century, 1900-1945, 19th Century, Bibliographic, Post-1945, Race/Ethnicity, Secondary

Fuechtner, Veronika, and Mary Rhiel (eds.). Imagining Germany Imagining Asia: Essays in Asian-German Studies. vol. 136, 2013.

The first collection of essays in the new field of Asian-German Studies, Imagining Germany Imagining Asia demonstrates that Germany and Asia have always shared cultural spaces. Indeed, since the time of the German Enlightenment, Asia served as the foil for fantasies of sexuality, escape, danger, competition, and racial and spiritual purity that were central to foundational ideas … Continue reading Fuechtner, Veronika, and Mary Rhiel (eds.). Imagining Germany Imagining Asia: Essays in Asian-German Studies. vol. 136, 2013.

February 19, 2020 Tom 18th Century, 19th Century, Bibliographic, German Outside Germany, Race/Ethnicity, Secondary

Zhang, Chunjie. Transculturality and German Discourse in the Age of European Colonialism (Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2017).

In her monograph, Zhang explores the global connections between German thought (Herder, Kant), literature (Kotzebue, Campe), and travel writing (Chamisso, Forster) and the projects of European colonialism, especially in the Pacific.

February 4, 2020February 4, 2020 Rey Conquer 18th Century, 1900-1945, 19th Century, Bibliographic, German Outside Germany, Race/Ethnicity, Secondary

German Colonial Rule Bibliography

From Oxford Bibliographies Online: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199846733/obo-9780199846733-0020.xml#obo-9780199846733-0020-div1-0005

January 30, 2020 Rey Conquer 18th Century, 1900-1945, 19th Century, Bibliographic, German Outside Germany, Race/Ethnicity

Kopp, Kristin. Germany’s Wild East: Constructing Poland as Colonial Space (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012)

Discussed in Karolina Wątroba's blog post.

January 30, 2020 Rey Conquer 18th Century, 1900-1945, 19th Century, Bibliographic, German Outside Germany, Multilingualism, Post-1945, Race/Ethnicity

Kontje, Todd. Imperial Fictions: German Literature Before and Beyond the Nation-State (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018)

Discussed in Karolina Wątroba’s blog post.

January 30, 2020 Rey Conquer 18th Century, 1900-1945, 19th Century, Bibliographic, German Outside Germany, Post-1945, Race/Ethnicity, Secondary

Conrad, Sebastian. Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte. 4th Edition (Munich: Beck, 2019)

Also available in Sorcha O’Hagan’s translation as German Colonialism: A Short History (Cambridge: CUP, 2012); mentioned in Karolina Wątroba's blog post.

September 25, 2019 Rey Conquer 18th Century, 19th Century, Bibliographic, Gender, Primary

Günderrode, Karoline von. Hildgund (1805) and Nikator (1806)

September 25, 2019 Rey Conquer 18th Century, Bibliographic, Gender, Primary

Mereau, Sophie. Das Blüthenalter der Empfindung (1794)

September 25, 2019 Rey Conquer 18th Century, Bibliographic, Gender, Primary

Huber, Therese. Die Familie Seldorf (1795)