Transatlantic Encounters

Udo J. Hebel, Karl Ortseifen (Eds.)

Transatlantic Encounters: Studies in European-American Relations. Presented to Winfried Herget

ISBN 978-3-88476-144-1, ISBN 3-88476-144-7, 406 S., kt., € 31,00 (1995)

ISBN 978-3-88476-160-1, ISBN 3-88476-160-9, 406 S., geb., € 41,00 (1995)

Transatlantic Encounters: Studies in European-American Relations collects essays by scholars from Germany, the United States, England, France, Austria, and Croatia to honor Winfried Herget on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Over the years, Winfried Herget has devoted the greater part of his research and teaching to the exploration of the multifaceted spectrum of European-American encounters. The list of publications appended to the present volume documents this scholarly scope. His continuing involvement in German-American academic programs underscores his dedication to the promotion of transatlantic relations in the fields of both student and staff exchanges. The contributors to this festschrift well reflect Winfried Hergets scholarly interests. The time span covered stretches from the beginnings of colonial American history to the present. The essays deal with a wide range of topics: Puritanism in seventeenth-century Old and New England, Britisch-American cultural relations in the eighteenth century, European-American literary interrelations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, travel accounts and the representation of intercultural encounters, European-American intertextuality and intermediality, linguistic aspects of trans-atlantic contacts. A work-in-progress report on the ongoing research project Americans in Rhineland-Palatinate initiated by Winfried Herget and sponsored by the Transatlantic Encounters: Studies in European-American Relations collects essays by scholars fom Germany, the United States, England, France, Austria, and Croatia to honor Winfried Herget on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Over the years, Winfried Herget has devoted the greater part of his research and teaching to the exploration of the multifaceted spectrum of European-American encounters. The list of publications appended to the present volume documents this scholarly scope. His continuing involvement in German-American academic programs underscores his dedication to the promotion of transatlantic relations in the fields of both student and staff exchanges.