Jakob Norberg

The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism

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Produktbeschreibung

In this first comprehensive English-language portrait of the Brothers Grimm as political thinkers and actors, Jakob Norberg shows how history's two most famous folklorists aspired to define national identity, delineate national borders, and even counsel regimes. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 265
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009073363
• ISBN-10: 1009073362
• Artikelnr.: 72542599

Autorenporträt

Jakob Norberg is Associate Professor of German Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Sociability and Its Enemies: German Political Thought After 1945 (2014) and numerous articles in journals such as PMLA, Cultural Critique, Textual Practice, New German Critique, Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie, and Sprache und Literatur.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The philologist king: Politics and knowledge in the nationalist era; 2.
Folk hatred and folk tales: The nationalist politics of the children- and
household tales; 3. The prince of Germany: Wilhelm Grimm and the
philologist as redeemer; 4. Love of the fatherland and fatherly love: Jacob
Grimm's political thought; 5. The mother tongue at school: Jacob Grimm and
the institutions of nation building; 6. The names of the barbarians: The
philologist, the tribe, and the empire.