Inventing the German Nation in Travel Literature, 1738-1839

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KARIN BAUMGARTNER is Professor of German at the University of Utah.

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Argues that German national identity was fostered, and even invented, in and through travelogues and other travel writing.

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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. On the Beaten Track: Foreign Travel in Germany, 1749-1839 2. Travel and Exploration in Cotta's Morgenblatt für gebildete Stände, 1807-1828 3. Discovering the Nation within: Domestic Travelogues, 1781-1821 4. The German Homeland in Das malerische und romantische Deutschland in zehn Sektionen 5. Finding the Proto-Nation at the Spa Conclusion Appendix: Travelogues used in Data Set Works Cited Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index