‘The Vanity of Translation’; or, Locating Adam Oehlenschläger in Romantic-Period Europe

Cian Duffy

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-99127-2_4

‘The Vanity of Translation’; or, Locating Adam Oehlenschläger in Romantic-Period Europe

Cian Duffy

English Studies

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Abstract

Cian Duffy’s chapter is concerned with the Danish poet and dramatist Adam Oehlenschläger, often identified as Denmark’s leading Romantic-period writer. Duffy focuses on an early instance of Oehlenschläger’s reception in England: an essay on contemporary German drama by Julius Charles Hare in the first and only number of Charles Ollier’s Literary Miscellany. Drawing also on theories about the relationship between literature and national character in the work of Germaine de Staël and John Wilson Croker, Duffy explores how Hare’s attempts to classify Oehlenschläger illustrate precisely the tensions marking emergent, ‘Romantic’ ideas about national literary traditions, and the difficulties of using translation as a mode of reception.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	79-99
Number of pages	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99127-2_4
Publication status	Published - 2022

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General Literary studies (including Literary Theory)

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‘The Vanity of Translation’; or, Locating Adam Oehlenschläger in Romantic-Period Europe

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