Translating the World

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

The City and the Globe: On Remaking German literature

Chapter One

Theater Channels: Translating the British Atlantic World for the Hamburg Stage

Chapter Two

Lessing Dethroned: the Hamburg Dramaturgy and the Eighteenth-Century World

Chapter Three

Leaving the City: Conversion to Community, Redemption, and Literary Sociability

Chapter Four

Classical Weimar Reconsidered: Friendship Redeemed, Foundations Laid, and Monuments Made

Epilogue

In the Translation Zone or (German) Literary Studies in the Twenty-First Century

Bibliography

Notes

Index

“Deploying the suggestive neologism Glokalisierung, Tautz’s timely and innovative book places the profoundly local and particular in eighteenth-century Germany (cities as divergent as the tiny, apparently parochial Weimar and the world city Hamburg) into dialogue with national and transnational developments. Translation, gossip, and rumor emerge in her study as potent vectors of sociability that mediate international, national, and local concerns.”

—Catriona MacLeod, author of Fugitive Objects: Sculpture and Literature in the German Nineteenth Century