The volume is a contribution to the ongoing debate on the internationalization of American Studies. The essays by European, American and Latin American scholars provide critical evaluations of a wide range of concepts, including trans-national and post-national, international, trans-atlantic, trans-pacific, as well as hemispheric, inter-American and comparative American studies. Combining theoretical reflections and actual case studies, the collection proposes a reassessment of current developments at a time when American nations experience the paradoxical simultaneity of both weakened and...

English summary: The views of what makes a literary translation correct und beautiful that had their origin in classical antiquity were radically called in question at the turn to the nineteenth century. Their decline and the rise of new concepts have been the subject of several studies of national scope. The present book is the first comparative survey of these events. The countries that contributed most to this monumental reorientation are France, Great Britain, and Germany. The comparative approach serves to determine what the three national traditions have in common and how they differ. A...

Die Lesekultur, in die sich amerikanische Schriftsteller des fruhen 19. Jahrhunderts einzuschreiben suchen, ist eine transatlantische. Zu den stutzenden Pfeilern des noch jungen amerikanischen Literaturbetriebs zahlen der Import von Buchern und Zeitschriften und die Orientierung an europaischen Vermarktungsstrategien und Lesegewohnheiten. Grobritannien kommt in diesem Austausch aufgrund der gemeinsamen Sprache und Geschichte eine besondere Bedeutung zu. Im historischen Roman sorgt der national-patriotische Auftrag des Genres fur einen produktiven Konflikt: einer Integration in die...