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English language --- English poetry --- Rhetoric, Medieval --- Versification --- Criticism, Textual --- Wanderer (Anglo-Saxon poem)

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The wanderer is an indispensable part of the German cultural imaginary. The nineteenth-century prominence of the motif owes much to the self-conception of the intellectual pioneers of the day as wanderers. The motif is also a key to interpretation of the social and cultural phenomena of a turbulent century that began with the emancipatory claims of the Enlightenment and ended in untrammeled industrialism. Writers from Goethe to Büchner, Fontane to Holtei were keenly aware of the motif's interpretive value, attempting to grasp with it not only such developments as mass migration and disappearing institutions but also unprecedented opportunities for artistic and scientific innovation. This book re-interprets canonical works such as Goethe's 'Wilhelm Meister' novels, Heine's 'Harzreise', and Büchner's 'Lenz', examines underresearched works by Fontane and Raabe, and charts new territory with readings of works by Gotthelf and Holtei - a selection of texts that reveals the vast scope and changing function of the wanderer motif. Andrew Cusack pays scrupulous attention to the historical specificity of each work and to its relationship to contemporary aesthetic and philosophical currents, revealing the wanderer motif to be a significant vehicle of cultural memory that sustained the ideas of the Enlightenment and of Romanticism. Andrew Cusack is a Lecturer in the Department of Germanic Studies at Trinity College Dublin.

German literature --- Nomads in literature. --- History and criticism. --- 19th-century. --- Enlightenment. --- German literature. --- Romanticism. --- artistic innovation. --- cultural criticism. --- cultural memory. --- intellectual history. --- literary pioneers. --- mass migration. --- scientific innovation. --- social commentary. --- wanderer motif.

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"Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success, and sheer sustainability of their society, and that this wandering became a defining characteristic of their culture. Addressing a neglected but essential subject, Wandering Greeks focuses on the diaspora of tens of thousands of people between about 700 and 325 BCE, demonstrating the degree to which Greeks were liable to be forced to leave their homes due to political upheaval, oppression, poverty, warfare, or simply a desire to better themselves. Attempting to enter into the mind-set of these wanderers, the book provides an insightful and sympathetic account of what it meant for ancient Greeks to part from everyone and everything they held dear, to start a new life elsewhere--or even to become homeless, living on the open road or on the high seas with no end to their journey in sight. Each chapter identifies a specific kind of "wanderer, " including the overseas settler, the deportee, the evacuee, the asylum-seeker, the fugitive, the economic migrant, and the itinerant, and the book also addresses repatriation and the idea of the "portable polis." The result is a vivid and unique portrait of ancient Greece as a culture of displaced persons"--

Greeks --- Grecs --- Migrations --- History --- Histoire --- Greece --- Grèce --- Social conditions --- Civilization --- Conditions sociales --- Civilisation --- Ancient --- Greece. --- General. --- Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C. --- Greece -- Social conditions -- To 146 B.C. --- Greeks -- Migrations -- History -- To 1500. --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Grèce --- HISTORY / Ancient / General. --- HISTORY / Ancient / Greece. --- Ethnology --- Mediterranean race --- Archaic Greece. --- Athenian law. --- Greek antiquity. --- Greek citizenship. --- Greek civilization. --- Greek identity. --- Greek-speaking world. --- Ionian migration. --- L'esprit de retour. --- Mediterranean world. --- adaptability. --- ancient Greece. --- anestios. --- aphrtr. --- apolis. --- asulia. --- asylum-seeker. --- asylum. --- civic identity. --- criminals. --- cultural homogeneity. --- democracy. --- deportation. --- deportee. --- deportees. --- diaspora. --- displaced persons. --- economic migrant. --- economic migrants. --- economic migration. --- entrepreneurship. --- ethnic cleansing. --- evacuation. --- evacuee. --- exile. --- exiles. --- familial identity. --- financial destitution. --- fugitives. --- hostilities. --- human resource. --- humanitarian agencies. --- itinerants. --- land hunger. --- legal battles. --- local sanctuary. --- long-distance travelers. --- mass deportation. --- migrants. --- migration. --- mobility. --- oikos. --- oligarch persuasion. --- overpopulation. --- overseas settler. --- ownership. --- panhellenic institutions. --- phratry. --- phug. --- pioneers. --- polis. --- political identity. --- political opponents. --- political pressure. --- political upheavals. --- portable polis. --- prosecution. --- radical upheaval. --- refuge. --- refugees. --- relocation. --- repatriation. --- resource fluctuations. --- returnees. --- sanctuary. --- servile labor. --- settlements. --- settlers. --- social identity. --- starvation. --- stasis. --- tyranny. --- voluntary flight. --- wanderer. --- wartime evacuations.