Georg Brandes

A Pioneer of Comparative Literature and a Global Public Intellectual

Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Lasse Horne Kjældgaard (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

350 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-52603-7 (ISBN)

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Georg Brandes (1842-1927) was one of the leading literary critics in Europe of his time. This book seeks to understand Brandes’ trajectory, to evaluate his significance for current discussions of literary criticism and public engagement, and to introduce Brandes to an international audience.

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.

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 Universität 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 Kjældgaard, 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.

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction “A Master of Productive Criticism”

Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Anders Engberg-Pedersen and Lasse Horne Kjældgaard

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 Kjældgaard

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 Pétroleuse 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 Nygård

9 Brandes – Ibsen Rethinking the Modern Breakthrough

Narve Fulsås

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

Søren Blak Hjortshøj

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

Erscheinungsdatum	05.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 213
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	709 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	90-04-52603-X / 900452603X
ISBN-13	978-90-04-52603-7 / 9789004526037
Zustand	Neuware