«Poor Green Erin»

German Travel Writers¿ Narratives on Ireland from Before the 1798 Rising to After the Great Famine- Texts Edited, Translated and Annotated by Eoin Bourke
Herausgegeben:Bourke, Eoin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The area of 19th-century German travel writing on Ireland has received widespread scholarly attention over the years in treatises in both English and German, but these efforts were directed largely at fellow-scholars and formed part of an academic discourse on travel, interculturality and alterity. This book, on the other hand, is conceived of more as a reader for the general public than as an academic treatise, presents a surprisingly extensive body of comments drawn from German and Austrian sources from between 1783 and 1865 and lets them «talk for themselves». Some of these remarkably empathetic and well-founded eye-witness accounts were translated into English already in the 19th century by people like Sarah Austin and Sir Lascelles Wraxhall, but the editor has re-translated them to remove varying degrees of antiquatedness of formulation and has added other accounts that were hitherto largely unknown to the non-German-speaking reading public.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 262861
• 2., überarb. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 794
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 46mm
• Gewicht: 1100g
• ISBN-13: 9783631628614
• ISBN-10: 3631628617
• Artikelnr.: 36781419

Autorenporträt

Eoin Bourke, born in Dublin in 1939; emeritus professor of German Studies at National University of Ireland, Galway; undergraduate studies and doctorate at Munich University; author of books on the literature of the late romantic and post-romantic period and the Austrian Anschluss in history and literature as well as of many articles in several research areas including Vormärz, travel and expedition literature, migrant literature, the critical folk play, literature as testimony and German-Jewish studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: 29 eye-witness accounts of Ireland and the Irish by: Karl Gottlob Küttner, Caspar Voght, Philipp Andreas Nemnich, Johann Friedrich Hering, Friedrich Ludwig von Wachholtz, Heinrich Dehnel, Heinrich Meidinger, Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, Magdalene von Dobeneck, Friedrich von Raumer, Henrich Brockhaus, Karl von Hailbronner, Johann Martin Lappenberg, Knut Jongbohm Clement, Johann Georg Kohl, Jakob Venedey, Ernst Ludwig Gerlach, Anton Schütte, Ida von Hahn-Hahn, Franz Arnold Coellen, Moritz Hartmann, Adolf Helfferich, Fanny Lewald, Friedrich Engels, Julius Rodenberg, Reinhold Pauli, Leopold von Ranke, and two anonymous authors.

Rezensionen

«Eoin Bourke [...] hat mit dieser Sammlung von ausgewählten Texten deutscher Reiseschriftsteller und ihrer Übertragung ins Englische eine literaturhistorische Meisterleistung vollbracht.»
(Heiko Steffens, Forum Vormärz Forschung, Jahrbuch 2015)

«Eoin Bourke's 'Poor Green Erin' [...] has drawn an Irish following since its appearance in February this year, and for good reason. The emeritus professor of German from NUI Galway has, by means of translation, recovered a lost library of (mostly) 19th-century reportage on Ireland that few in this country has seen before. A knowledgeable guide can do a lot to make a tour worth making, and Bourke is the best of hosts.»
(Adrian Frazier, The Irish Times, September 22, 2012)