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About the Author
ANDREW CUSACK is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of St Andrews. He worked previously as an Assistant Professor in Dublin before taking a postdoctoral fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin. In 2012, he joined the University of St Andrews. He is the author of The Wanderer in Nineteenth-Century German Literature: Intellectual History and Cultural Criticism (2008). Together with Barry Murnane he co-edited the volume Popular Revenants: The German Gothic and Its International Reception, 1800-2000 (2012) and has recently co-edited (with Michael White) a volume entitled Der Fontane-Ton: Stil im Werk Theodor Fontanes (2021). He has published widely on a range of topics in the "long nineteenth century" including articles on Buchner, Fontane, Heine, Moerike, Schiller, and on Karl Philipp Moritz. His second monograph: Johannes Scherr: Mediating Culture in the German Nineteenth Century was published by Camden House in 2021.
Reviews
[T]his study . . . illustrates the explanatory potential of a literary theme that has never been tackled systematically - in spite of the fact that the wanderer is one of the most potent cultural symbols of Germany identity. * THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY CURRENT BIBLIOGRAPHY *
Shrewdly, Cusack intuits a link between the wanderer motif and Goethe's neo-classicistic principle of attention to the present moment -- between 'Gedenke zu wandern!' and the motto 'Gedenke zu leben.' Taken together, both injunctions culminate in Nietzsche's insight that the 'Freiheit der Vernunft' makes wanderers of us all.. [A] well-structured and clearly written study. * JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES *
Cusack persuasively argues that the presence of the wanderer fades from the literary scene with the rise of Germany as a nation state. * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *
[The] value of this book lies in its local interpretations, which are consistently perceptive and stimulating; they will repay consideration by anyone concerned with any of these texts. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *
[Cusack has] created a wide-ranging, rich, and variegated cultural history of the nineteenth-century individual as wanderer. * GERMAN QUARTERLY *
[A] brilliant and original monograph. * JAHRBUCH DER GERMANISTIK IN IRLAND *
Book Information
ISBN 9781571133861
Author Professor Andrew Cusack
Format Hardback
Page Count 268
Imprint Camden House Inc
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g