Georg Brandes
A Pioneer of Comparative Literature and a Global Public Intellectual
Published on 20. December 2023
Book
Hardback
350 pages
978-90-04-52603-7 (ISBN)
Description
Georg Brandes (1842-1927) was one of the leading literary critics in Europe of his time. His Main Currents of Nineteenth Century Literature (1872-1890) was a foundational text to the field of comparative literature and extolled by Thomas Mann as the "Bible of the young intellectual Europe at the turn of the century." Georg Brandes eventually developed into a truly global public intellectual, living by his pen and public lectures. On the eve of World War I, he was one of the most sought-after commentators, vigorously opposing all conflicting factions. This book seeks to understand Brandes' trajectory, to evaluate Brandes' significance for current discussions of literary criticism and public engagement, and to introduce Brandes to an international audience. It consists of 15 original chapters commissioned from experts in the field.
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"Comparative Literature contributes to a sense of being at home in a world that is heterogeneous and fractured, rather than affirming a monolithic canon marked by territory and homogeneity." This is what our editors wrote in the introduction of the 200th jubilee volume Taking Stock - Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research (2019). The past volumes in this series provide a look into the history of Comparative Literary Studies of the last three decades. Having started with 'classical' literary studies, the series opened to contemporary approaches such as migration studies, memory studies, and human-animal studies. Thus, it is ready for its future.Norbert Bachleitner, Universitaet Wien, Austria - Juliane Werner, Universitaet Wien, Austria
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 241 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
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626 gr
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978-90-04-52603-7 (9789004526037)
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Jens Bjerring-Hansen, PhD, is Associate Professor of Scandinavian Literature at the University of Copenhagen. He has published widely on Danish and Scandinavian literary and cultural history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Most recent book publication is the volume Scandinavian Exceptionalisms (2021, with Torben Jelsbak and Anna Mrozewicz).
Anders Engberg-Pedersen received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and in Neuere Deutsche Literatur from Humboldt Universitaet in 2012. He is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and Chair of Humanities at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies. His publications include Empire of Chance. The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things (HUP, 2015) and Martial Aesthetics. How War Became an Art Form (SUP, forthcoming 2023).
Lasse Horne Kjaeldgaard, dr.phil. and PhD, is Professor of Danish Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and Director of the Hans Christian Andersen Centre. He has published numerous monographs and articles on Danish literary and cultural history.
Anders Engberg-Pedersen received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and in Neuere Deutsche Literatur from Humboldt Universitaet in 2012. He is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and Chair of Humanities at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies. His publications include Empire of Chance. The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things (HUP, 2015) and Martial Aesthetics. How War Became an Art Form (SUP, forthcoming 2023).
Lasse Horne Kjaeldgaard, dr.phil. and PhD, is Professor of Danish Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and Director of the Hans Christian Andersen Centre. He has published numerous monographs and articles on Danish literary and cultural history.
Content
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction "A Master of Productive Criticism"???
??Jens? ?Bjerring-Hansen??, ??Anders? ?Engberg-Pedersen?? and ??Lasse Horne? ?Kj?ae?ldgaard?????
Part 1?
The Comparatist?
1?The Fox and the Stork Georg Brandes and the Institutionalization of Comparative Literature??
??Ben? ?Hutchinson?????
2?Georg Brandes and the History of Emotions
??Anders? ?Engberg-Pedersen?????
3?Sexual Morality, Gender Equality, and Pioneering Women Writers in Brandes' Comparative Writings
??Sophie? ?Wennerscheid?????
4?Georg Brandes and the Writing of Typological Literary History
??Lasse Horne? ?Kj?ae?ldgaard?????
5?"The Prose of Life" Brandes and the Concept of the Prosaic??
??Annegret? ?Heitmann?????
6?"Bringing the Foreign Closer to Us" Cross-Cultural Literary Matchmaking in Georg Brandes' Letters??
??Julie K.? ?Allen??????
Part 2?
The Public Intellectual?
7?The P?e?troleuse? and the Prophet Georg Brandes and the Making of an Intellectual??
??Torben? ?Jelsbak?????
8?The Southern Prism of the Northern Breakthrough Georg Brandes and Italy??
??Stefan? ?Nyg?a?rd?????
9?Brandes - Ibsen Rethinking the Modern Breakthrough??
??Narve? ?Fuls?a?s?????
10?Between Deification and Rejection Georg Brandes as an Ambivalent Public Figure in the German-Speaking World??
??Monica? ?Wenusch?????
11?The Domesticated European? Georg Brandes' Impressions of Russia? and his Russian Reception
??Birgitte Beck? ?Pristed?????
12?"The Universal Struggle for World Renown" Georg Brandes' Global Literary Strategies??
??Jens? ?Bjerring-Hansen?????
13?Georg Brandes' Erasure of Jewishness and Cosmopolitanism in his Later Writings
??S?o?ren Blak? ?Hjortsh?o?j?????
14?"The Slaughter of the Youth of Europe" Georg Brandes and the Young Generation in ?The World at War
??Martin? ?Zerlang?????
15?Brandes after Nietzsche Aristocratic Radicalism vs. Human Rights??
??William? ?Banks??????
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction "A Master of Productive Criticism"???
??Jens? ?Bjerring-Hansen??, ??Anders? ?Engberg-Pedersen?? and ??Lasse Horne? ?Kj?ae?ldgaard?????
Part 1?
The Comparatist?
1?The Fox and the Stork Georg Brandes and the Institutionalization of Comparative Literature??
??Ben? ?Hutchinson?????
2?Georg Brandes and the History of Emotions
??Anders? ?Engberg-Pedersen?????
3?Sexual Morality, Gender Equality, and Pioneering Women Writers in Brandes' Comparative Writings
??Sophie? ?Wennerscheid?????
4?Georg Brandes and the Writing of Typological Literary History
??Lasse Horne? ?Kj?ae?ldgaard?????
5?"The Prose of Life" Brandes and the Concept of the Prosaic??
??Annegret? ?Heitmann?????
6?"Bringing the Foreign Closer to Us" Cross-Cultural Literary Matchmaking in Georg Brandes' Letters??
??Julie K.? ?Allen??????
Part 2?
The Public Intellectual?
7?The P?e?troleuse? and the Prophet Georg Brandes and the Making of an Intellectual??
??Torben? ?Jelsbak?????
8?The Southern Prism of the Northern Breakthrough Georg Brandes and Italy??
??Stefan? ?Nyg?a?rd?????
9?Brandes - Ibsen Rethinking the Modern Breakthrough??
??Narve? ?Fuls?a?s?????
10?Between Deification and Rejection Georg Brandes as an Ambivalent Public Figure in the German-Speaking World??
??Monica? ?Wenusch?????
11?The Domesticated European? Georg Brandes' Impressions of Russia? and his Russian Reception
??Birgitte Beck? ?Pristed?????
12?"The Universal Struggle for World Renown" Georg Brandes' Global Literary Strategies??
??Jens? ?Bjerring-Hansen?????
13?Georg Brandes' Erasure of Jewishness and Cosmopolitanism in his Later Writings
??S?o?ren Blak? ?Hjortsh?o?j?????
14?"The Slaughter of the Youth of Europe" Georg Brandes and the Young Generation in ?The World at War
??Martin? ?Zerlang?????
15?Brandes after Nietzsche Aristocratic Radicalism vs. Human Rights??
??William? ?Banks??????
Index