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Two Boston Brahmins in Goethe's Germany

Editat de Thomas Adam, Gisela Mettele
en Limba Engleză Hardback – iun 2009
This volume presents the travel journals of George and Anna Ticknor, a prominent American couple, from their German tours in the first third of the nineteenth century. The parallel yet independent writing of these travel journals by husband and wife give these journals a unique character.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780739129111
ISBN-10: 0739129112
Pagini: 294
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing

Cuprins

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 Part I. A Student Discovers Germany: George Ticknor, 1815-1817
Chapter 4 1. "We reached Gottingen, anxious and doubting." Studying Abroad, August 5, 1815-September 10, 1816
Chapter 5 2. "A Journey" with Edward Everett, September 13-October 25, 1816
Chapter 6 3. "Germany. Face of the Country": Youthful Reflections, 1815-1817
Chapter 7 4. "One important step nearer to...home." March 22-April 1, 1817
Part 8 Part II. Cosmopolitan Sojourners in Royal Saxony
Chapter 9 Section I: George Ticknor, 1835-1836
Chapter 10 5. "The spires and towers of Dresden were before us." November 12-December 25, 1835
Chapter 11 6. "I was presented at Court." December 26, 1835-April 22, 1836
Chapter 12 7. "To keep...as distinct an impression as I can." A Summary: April 1836
Chapter 13 8. "It was not agreeable to leave Dresden." May 8-June 5, 1836
Chapter 14 Section II: Anna Ticknor, 1835-1836
Chapter 15 9. "Safely arrived at this haven of rest." November 10-December 25, 1835
Chapter 16 10. "I amused myself with a rehearsal of my dress." December 26, 1835-April 12, 1836
Chapter 17 11. "I would fain...give an impression...of this pretty city." April 26-May 8, 1836
Chapter 18 12. "Once more travellers!" May 10-June 5, 1836

Recenzii

In this work, elite Americans express their fascination with the cultural and social life they observed and experienced while on extended tour in early nineteenth-century Germany-particularly in Dresden, the vibrant capital of the Kingdom of Saxony. Expertly edited, the volume introduces us to an image of a romanticized/idealized Germany that shaped the thinking of many Americans for decades after the Ticknors' travels. It makes an important contribution to our understanding of the ways in which European traditions influenced intellectual developments in the United States.
Well edited by an insightful introduction and extensive annotations, these travel journals provide an opportunity to see eastern Germany through two elite Americans' eyes. Since the travelers kept separate journals a novel comparative perspective emerges on court society and the political reforms of 1830.
This highly readable and well annotated edition of George and Anna Ticknor's journals from their travels to Germany opens a window into a world of learning, art, and personal fulfillment that seems hard to imagine in the twenty-first century. That American travelers fell in love with Old World charme has often been reported, but seldom so convincingly as in the case of the Boston couple in nineteenth-century Dresden, the 'Florence upon the Elbe.' The recovery-and first publication-of Anna Ticknor's journal adds a rare female voice and makes the encounter with princes, writers, and commoners truly come to life.