Georg Brandes : a pioneer of comparative literature and a global public intellectual

Georg Brandes : a pioneer of comparative literature and a global public intellectual /

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Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Bjerring-Hansen, Jens (Editor), Engberg-Pedersen, Anders (Editor), Kjældgaard, Lasse Horne (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024]
Series:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; v. 210.
Subjects:
Brandes, Georg, > 1842-1927 > Criticism and interpretation.
1800-1899
Critics > Denmark > Biography.
Intellectuals > Denmark > Biography.
Europe > Intellectual life > 19th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. "A master of productive criticism" / Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Anders Engberg-Pedersen and Lasse Horne Kjældgaard
  • The fox and the stork : Georg Brandes and the institutionalization of comparative literature / Ben Hutchinson
  • Georg Brandes and the history of emotions / Anders Engberg-Pedersen
  • Sexual morality, gender equality, and pioneering women writers in Brandes' comparative writings / Sophie Wennerscheid
  • Georg Brandes and the writing of typological literary history / Lasse Horne Kjældgaard
  • "The prose of life" : Brandes and the concept of the prosaic / Annegret Heitmann
  • "Bringing the foreign closer to us" : cross-cultural literary matchmaking in Georg Brandes' letters / Julie K. Allen
  • The pétroleuse and the prophet : Georg Brandes and the making of an intellectual / Torben Jelsbak
  • The southern prism of the northern breakthrough : Georg Brandes and Italy / Stefan Nygård
  • Brandes
  • Ibsen : rethinking the modern breakthrough / Narve Fulsås
  • Between deification and rejection : Georg Brandes as an ambivalent public figure in the German-speaking world / Monica Wenusch
  • The domesticated European? Georg Brandes' impressions of Russia and his Russian reception / Birgitte Beck Pristed
  • "The universal struggle for world renown" : Georg Brandes' global literary strategies / Jens Bjerring-Hansen
  • Georg Brandes' erasure of Jewishness and cosmopolitanism in his later writings / Søren Blak Hjortshøj
  • "The slaughter of the youth of Europe" : Georg Brandes and the young generation in the world at war / Martin Zerlang
  • Brandes after Nietzsche : aristocratic radicalism vs. Human rights / William Banks.

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