Translation, Colonial Comparison, and the Book Trade in German Pennsylvania

Len von Morze

University of Massachusetts, Boston

Len von Morzé is Associate Professor and Chair of English at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, where he teaches transatlantic eighteenth-century studies and early American print culture. He is the editor of Cities and the Circulation of Culture in the Atlantic World: From the Early Modern to Modernism (Palgrave, 2017), co-editor of Urban Identity and the Atlantic World (Palgrave, 2013), and author of many articles on German-American literary exchange. He is Associate Editor of New England Quarterly.

Abstract

Len von Morzé: “Translation, Colonial Comparison, and the Book Trade in German Pennsylvania” In 1816, a translation of Robinson Crusoe helped to get a group of Pennsylvanians who were determined to preserve the use of... [ view full abstract ]

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  1. Len von Morze (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

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P45 » Un-Englishing the C19 (14:00 - Friday, 23rd March, Fiesta I-II)

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