Georg Brandes

Jens Bjerring-Hansen, PhD, is Associate Professor of Scandinavian Literature at the University of Copenhagen. He has published widely on Danish and Scandinavian literary and cultural history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Most recent book publication is the volume Scandinavian Exceptionalisms (2021, with Torben Jelsbak and Anna Mrozewicz).Anders Engberg-Pedersen received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and in Neuere Deutsche Literatur from Humboldt Universität in 2012. He is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and Chair of Humanities at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies. His publications include Empire of Chance. The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things (HUP, 2015) and Martial Aesthetics. How War Became an Art Form (SUP, forthcoming 2023).Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, dr.phil. and PhD, is Professor of Danish Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and Director of the Hans Christian Andersen Centre. He has published numerous monographs and articles on Danish literary and cultural history.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction “A Master of Productive Criticism”Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Anders Engberg-Pedersen and Lasse Horne KjældgaardPart 1The Comparatist1 The Fox and the Stork Georg Brandes and the Institutionalization of Comparative LiteratureBen Hutchinson2 Georg Brandes and the History of EmotionsAnders Engberg-Pedersen3 Sexual Morality, Gender Equality, and Pioneering Women Writers in Brandes’ Comparative WritingsSophie Wennerscheid4 Georg Brandes and the Writing of Typological Literary HistoryLasse Horne Kjældgaard5 “The Prose of Life” Brandes and the Concept of the ProsaicAnnegret Heitmann6 “Bringing the Foreign Closer to Us” Cross-Cultural Literary Matchmaking in Georg Brandes’ LettersJulie K. AllenPart 2The Public Intellectual7 The Pétroleuse and the Prophet Georg Brandes and the Making of an IntellectualTorben Jelsbak8 The Southern Prism of the Northern Breakthrough Georg Brandes and ItalyStefan Nygård9 Brandes – Ibsen Rethinking the Modern BreakthroughNarve Fulsås10 Between Deification and Rejection Georg Brandes as an Ambivalent Public Figure in the German-Speaking WorldMonica Wenusch11 The Domesticated European? Georg Brandes’ Impressions of Russia and his Russian ReceptionBirgitte Beck Pristed12 “The Universal Struggle for World Renown” Georg Brandes’ Global Literary StrategiesJens Bjerring-Hansen13 Georg Brandes’ Erasure of Jewishness and Cosmopolitanism in his Later WritingsSøren Blak Hjortshøj14 “The Slaughter of the Youth of Europe” Georg Brandes and the Young Generation in The World at WarMartin Zerlang15 Brandes after Nietzsche Aristocratic Radicalism vs. Human RightsWilliam BanksIndex

“Comparative Literature contributes to a sense of being at home in a world that is heterogeneous and fractured, rather than affirming a monolithic canon marked by territory and homogeneity.” This is what our editors wrote in the introduction of the 200th jubilee volume Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research (2019). The past volumes in this series provide a look into the history of Comparative Literary Studies of the last three decades. Having started with ‘classical’ literary studies, the series opened to contemporary approaches such as migration studies, memory studies, and human-animal studies. Thus, it is ready for its future.Norbert Bachleitner, Universität Wien, Austria - Juliane Werner, Universität Wien, Austria