Inventing the German Nation in Travel Literature, 1738-1839 by Baumgartner, Karin;

Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture; 248;

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Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Date of Publication 11 February 2025
Number of Volumes Print PDF

ISBN 9781640141384
Binding Hardback
No. of pages290 pages
Size 229x152 mm
Weight 564 g
Language English
Illustrations 16 maps, 5 graphs and 7 b/w illus.

Short description:

Argues that German national identity was fostered, and even invented, in and through travelogues and other travel writing.

Long description:

"Argues that German national identity was fostered, and even invented, in and through travelogues and other travel writing. Far into the nineteenth century, Germany remained a collection of separate principalities. Scholars have long debated the causes and implications of this ""belatedness"" relative to other European nations like England and France. This book offers a fresh perspective by arguing that travel literature helped shape a distinct and cohesive German identity well before political unification in 1871. Beginning in the eighteenth century, foreign travelers' accounts depicted ""Germany"" as a distinct place despite its political divisions, thus allowing German readers to imagine their fragmented nation as a conceptual whole. Ethnographic descriptions from distant places further aided this process as Germans learned to view themselves through this particular lens. Around 1800, Germans, too, began to explore their homeland and describe their experiences, creating travelogues that solidified the nascent sense of national identity. Drawing on a vast collection of German, British, and French travelogues, travel handbooks, and popular geographic texts, Karin Baumgartner examines how travel writing reflects shifts in geographic paradigms and national identity in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Germany. Incorporating discourses of nationalism and geography, including Edward Soja's influential concept of Thirdspace, Baumgartner illuminates how these texts encapsulated evolving perceptions of space that forged a specific German national identity."

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. On the Beaten Track: Foreign Travel in Germany, 1749-1839 2. Travel and Exploration in Cotta's Morgenblatt fÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ1⁄4r gebildete StÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ¤nde, 1807-1828 3. Discovering the Nation within: Domestic Travelogues, 1781-1821 4. The German Homeland in Das malerische und romantische Deutschland in zehn Sektionen 5. Finding the Proto-Nation at the Spa Conclusion Appendix: Travelogues used in Data Set Works Cited Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index