Ulla Haselstein

MaryAnn Snyder-Körber

Andrew S. Gross

Papers from a conference held June 21-24, 2007 at the John F. Kennedy-Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universit'at Berlin.

American Passions of the Real

The Pathos of Authenticity

Florian Sedlmeier

James Dorson

Birte Wege

Modernity is made and unmade by the anecdotal. Conceived as a literary genre, a narrative element of criticism, and, most crucially, a mode of historiography, the anecdote illuminates the convergences as well as the fault lines cutting across modern practices of knowledge production. The volume explores uses of the anecdotal in exemplary case studies from the threshold of the early modern to the present.

Making and Unmaking History

Anecdotal Modernity

Sappho bis Baudelaire

Das weiblich Erhabene

MaryAnn Snyder-Körber

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