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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.
Contents
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
