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Author Boes, Tobias, 1976- author.

Title Thomas Mann's war : literature, politics, and the world republic of letters / Tobias Boes
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 354 pages)
Contents Introduction: the German envoy to America -- The teacher of Germany -- The greatest living man of letters -- Interlude I: Joseph in Egypt -- The first citizen of the international republic of letters -- Interlude II: Lotte in Weimar -- Hitler's most intimate enemy -- Interlude III: the tables of the law -- A blooming flower -- Interlude IV: Joseph the provider -- The loyal American subject -- Interlude V: Doctor Faustus -- The isolated world citizen
Summary "During the period of his American exile in the 1930s and 1940s, the German author Thomas Mann became one of the most prominent anti-fascists in the United States, and in so doing forever transformed our understanding of what a modern writer is and should be doing"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 27, 2019)
Subject Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 -- Political activity
SUBJECT Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 -- Political activity
Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 fast
Subject Authors, German -- 20th century -- Political and social views
Authors, Exiled -- Political activity -- United States
Politics and literature -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Public opinion.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
Authors, German -- Political and social views
Political participation
Politics and literature
Public opinion
War and literature
Germany
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019020253
ISBN 9781501745003
1501745018
9781501745010
150174500X