Fontane and Cultural Mediation - 9780367600518

Taylor & Francis

In the mid-1880s, the Realist author and Anglophile Theodor Fontane observed: \u2018nowhere is so much translation done as in Germany.\u2019 > In the mid-1880s, the Realist author and Anglophile Theodor Fontane observed: \u2018nowhere is so much translation done as in Germany.\u2019 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 present collection of essays by thirteen eminent literary scholars and historians is intended to correct this prejudice: it demonstrates that literary life and production in the nineteenth century were governed by complex networks of intercultural exchange, influence and translation, and it does justice to this complexity through its range of complementary critical approaches, focussing on Fontane, Anglo-German relations, translation, and Euro.