Dr Andrew Cusack, Lecturer
Contact Details
atc4@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: 01334 463661
Office: Buchanan 204
Research and Teaching
My research and teaching activities lie in three interrelated and complementary areas: cultural history, popular literature, and literary anthropology. In my monograph The Wanderer in Nineteenth-Century German Literature I survey developments ranging from the practices of identity formation associated with groups ranging from artisans to Romantic scientists, to such changes as emigration, pauperization and tourism, the rise of an “ideology of the settled life,” and the reification of Bildung. Using the motif of the wanderer as a linking element, I concentrate on the discourses on education, science, politics and social marginality in a century where people, goods and ideas became mobile as never before.
My co-edited collection Populäre Erscheinungen (with Barry Murnane) contributes to the book history of the nineteenth century by studying the German Schauerroman (Gothic novel) at the time of its first flourishing around 1800, at the very moment that reading becomes transformed as a social practice.
My second co-edited collection Popular Revenants (with Barry Murnane) is the first book dedicated to the German Gothic in over thirty years. It builds on work done in Populäre Erscheinungen to pursue the subsequent career of the German Gothic beyond 1800, tracing its revenants in other discourses and media, and its role in processes of cultural transfer.
Literary anthropology offers a sound basis for investigating such themes as ethnography, the body in literature, identity construction, ritual and performativity, and psychology. It is an approach that has guided my interpretations of texts by Herder, Goethe, Heine and Büchner, and essays on Schiller and Mörike.
My current research focuses on cultural historians, a group of authors hovering on the threshold between academic history and literature, writers whose unabashedly popular works were also highly innovative and controversial. For this project I was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship to the Humboldt Universität Berlin in 2011.
Publications
Popular Revenants: The German Gothic and Its International Reception 1800-2000
Cusack, A. (ed.)
& Murnane, B. (ed.)
2012
Rochester, NY:
Camden House
.
318 p.
(Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture).
Research output
:
Book/Report
›
Book
Populäre Erscheinungen: Der deutsche Schauerroman um 1800
Cusack, A. T. (ed.)
& Murnane, B. (ed.)
2011
Munich:
Wilhelm Fink Verlag
.
341 p.
(Laboratorium Aufklärung).
Research output
:
Book/Report
›
Book
The Wanderer in Nineteenth-Century German Literature: Intellectual History and Cultural Criticism
Cusack, A. T.
2008
Rochester, NY:
Camden House
.
268 p.
Research output
:
Book/Report
›
Book
Cultural Transfer in the Dublin University Magazine: The Case of James Clarence Mangan
Cusack, A. T.
2012
In:
Popular Revenants: German Gothic and Its International Reception, 1800-2000.
Camden House
,
p. 87-104.
17 p.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
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Chapter
Introduction
Cusack, A. T.
2012
In:
Popular Revenants: The German Gothic and Its International Reception 1800-2000.
Camden House
,
p. 1-9.
9 p.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
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Chapter
Also bist du nicht so schlimm, o alter Adam: Anmerkungen zu Mörikes lyrischer Anthropologie
Cusack, A. T.
2011
In:
Körperkult - Körperzwang - Körperstörung: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven aus Psychologie und Literatur.
Barkhoff, J. & von Engelhardt, D. (eds.). Heidelberg:
Mattes Verlag
,
p. 191-213.
22 p.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
The Wanderer as Weltbürger: Die Harzreise and the Genesis of Heine’s Cosmopolitanism
Cusack, A. T.
2011
In:
The Cause of Cosmopolitanism: Dispositions, Models, Transformation.
O'Donovan, P. & Rascaroli, L. (eds.). Berne:
Peter Lang
,
p. 153-171.
18 p.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
Der Räuberroman: Versuch einer Standortbestimmung in der deutsch-britischen Leseökonomie um 1800
Cusack, A. T.
2011
In:
Populäre Erscheinungen: der deutsche Schauerroman um 1800 .
Munich:
Wilhelm Fink Verlag
,
p. 193-209.
16 p.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
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Chapter
Einleitung
Cusack, A. T.
2011
In:
Populäre Erscheinungen: der deutsche Schauerroman um 1800 .
Munich:
Wilhelm Fink Verlag
,
p. 7-22.
15 p.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
Gutzkow and Holtei: Theatricality and Literary Roles in the Vormärz
Cusack, A. T.
2011
In:
Karl Gutzkow and His Contemporaries / Karl Gutzkow und seine Zeitgenossen.
Vonhoff, G. (ed.). Bielefeld:
Aisthesis
,
p. 321-340.
19 p.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
The Anthropological Turn: Schiller, A Thinker on the Threshold to Modernity
Cusack, A. T.
& Riedel, W.
2006
In:
Germanistik in Ireland.
Verlag Hartung-Görre
,
p. 9-28.
20 p.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
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Chapter
Civibus aevi futuri: Panoramic Historiography in Fontane’s Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg
Cusack, A. T.
2009
In :
Modern Language Review
.
104
,
3
,
p. 746-761.
15 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
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Article
Unacknowledged Affinities? Georg Büchner and Berlin Modernism 1886-96
Cusack, A. T.
2007
In :
Germanistik in Ireland
.
2
,
p. 90-100.
11 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
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Article
Der närrische Tag: Mörike’s Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag
Cusack, A. T.
2007
In :
Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik
.
89
,
p. 75-88.
14 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
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Article
Physiognomy and Honour in Schiller’s Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre
Cusack, A. T.
2006
In :
Modern Language Review
.
101
,
3
,
p. 759-773.
14 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
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Article
Review of Dinah Birch and Mark Llewellyn (eds.), Conflict and Difference in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Cusack, A. T.
2012
In :
The European Legacy
.
p. 110-111.
2 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
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Book/Film/Article review
Review of Lynne Tatlock (ed.), Publishing Culture and the “Reading Nation”: German Book History in the Long Nineteenth Century
Cusack, A. T.
2012
In :
German Studies Review
.
p. 157-159.
3 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
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Book/Film/Article review
Review of James N. Bade, Fontane’s Landscapes
Cusack, A. T.
2011
In :
Modern Language Review
.
106
,
1
,
p. 281-282.
2 p.
Research output
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Contribution to journal
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Book/Film/Article review
Review of Bettina Hey’l, Das Ganze der Natur und die Differenzierung des Wissens: Alexander von Humboldt als Schriftsteller
Cusack, A. T.
2010
In :
Modern Language Review
.
105
,
1
,
p. 275-276.
2 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
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Book/Film/Article review
Review of Walter Hinderer (ed.), Friedrich Schiller und der Weg in die Moderne
Cusack, A. T.
2009
In :
Modern Language Review
.
104
,
1
,
p. 237-238.
2 p.
Research output
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Contribution to journal
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Book/Film/Article review