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Randfiguren? The methodological usefulness of marginal figures - Ernst Brandes’ and Franz Josias von Hendrich’s Assessments of the French Revolution as new perspectives on German conceptions of the Bürgertum (2024)
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Oergel, M. (2024). Randfiguren? The methodological usefulness of marginal figures - Ernst Brandes’ and Franz Josias von Hendrich’s Assessments of the French Revolution as new perspectives on German conceptions of the Bürgertum. Publications of the English Goethe Society, 93(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09593683.2024.2308914

The article discusses two marginal political writers who were widely read and well respected by their contemporaries but are now either forgotten (Hendrich) or reduced to a historical footnote in the history of conservatism (Brandes). The aim is to i... Read More about Randfiguren? The methodological usefulness of marginal figures - Ernst Brandes’ and Franz Josias von Hendrich’s Assessments of the French Revolution as new perspectives on German conceptions of the Bürgertum.

Advocating ancient equalities. Pluralising “antiquity” in enlightened universal history (2023)
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Oergel, M. (2023). Advocating ancient equalities. Pluralising “antiquity” in enlightened universal history. Intellectual History Review, 33(3), 411-433. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2023.2177249

This article investigates the constructions of Hebrew, classical, and “Northern” antiquities put forward by an eighteenth-century network of Anglo-German scholars. It asks to what extent these constructions propose a cultural equality between these c... Read More about Advocating ancient equalities. Pluralising “antiquity” in enlightened universal history.

Britain, Germany, and Brexit: The ‘Cradle of Democracy’ and the ‘Heart of Europe’ as Different Legacies of the Nineteenth-century Idea of the ‘Germanic’ (2022)
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Oergel, M. (2022). Britain, Germany, and Brexit: The ‘Cradle of Democracy’ and the ‘Heart of Europe’ as Different Legacies of the Nineteenth-century Idea of the ‘Germanic’. Angermion, 15(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1515/anger-2022-0001

Temporary Canonicity and the Horizontal Perspective: Digitization and the Emergence of "Forgotten Canons" (2020)
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Oergel, M. (2020). Temporary Canonicity and the Horizontal Perspective: Digitization and the Emergence of "Forgotten Canons". Goethe Yearbook, 27(1), 215-224. https://doi.org/10.1353/gyr.2020.0008

‘Incorrigible Jacobins’: Hazlitt’s Engagement with German Literature (2020)
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Oergel, M. (2020). ‘Incorrigible Jacobins’: Hazlitt’s Engagement with German Literature. Hazlitt Review, 13(1),

The fact that William Hazlitt engaged closely with contemporary German literature throughout his life has so far not received any detailed attention in Hazlitt research. The essay focuses on Hazlitt's assessment of German drama put forward in his thi... Read More about ‘Incorrigible Jacobins’: Hazlitt’s Engagement with German Literature.

Politics, Radicalism and Anglo-German Relations: The Reception of Ernst Moritz Arndt in Early 19th-Century Britain (2018)
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Oergel, M. (2018). Politics, Radicalism and Anglo-German Relations: The Reception of Ernst Moritz Arndt in Early 19th-Century Britain. Angermion, 11(1), 31-60. https://doi.org/10.1515/anger-2018-0002

This essay presents the early reception of Ernst Moritz Arndt in Britain. Retrieving this largely forgotten engagement with Arndt, and engagement of Arndt as it turns out, provides two insights. On a more general level it illustrates the influence of... Read More about Politics, Radicalism and Anglo-German Relations: The Reception of Ernst Moritz Arndt in Early 19th-Century Britain.

Constitutionalism and cultural identity as revolutionary concepts in German political radicalism 1806-1819: the case of the Burschenschaftler Karl Follen (2018)
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Oergel, M. (2018). Constitutionalism and cultural identity as revolutionary concepts in German political radicalism 1806-1819: the case of the Burschenschaftler Karl Follen. Comparative Critical Studies, 15(2), 183-205. https://doi.org/10.3366/ccs.2018.0288

The aim of this essay is to investigate the concepts of cultural identity and national sovereignty as they emerge in radical German nationalism after 1806 in relation to French Revolutionary ideas and seek to reconstruct a radical revolutionary, i.e.... Read More about Constitutionalism and cultural identity as revolutionary concepts in German political radicalism 1806-1819: the case of the Burschenschaftler Karl Follen.