| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 336 pages) |
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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture |
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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
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| Contents |
Introduction / Fred Bridgham -- 1. t Anglo-German conflict in popular fiction 1870-1914 / Iain Boyd Whyte -- 2. Perversion and pestilence : D.H. Lawrence and the Germans / Helena Ragg-Kirkby -- 3. "Und muss ich von Dante schweigen, zieht Italien gegen uns?" : Carl Sternheim's opposition to the First World War / Rhys W. Williams -- 4. The Martians are coming! War, peace, love, and reflection in H.G. Wells's The war of the worlds and Kurd Lasswitz's Auf zwei Planeten / Ingo Cornils -- 5. Nietzsche as hate-figure in Britain's Great War : "the execrable neech" / Nicholas Martin -- 6. Darwinism and national identity, 1870-1918 / Gregory Moore -- 7. Bernhardi and "the ideas of 1914" / Fred Bridgham -- 8. Peacemaker and warmonger : Alexander Tille and the limits of Anglo-German intercultural transfer / Stefan Manz -- 9. "In Politik verschieden, in Freundschaft wie immer" : the German Celtic scholar Kuno Meyer and the First World War / Andreas Huether -- 10. Austrian (and some German) scholars of English and the First World War / Holger Klein |
| Summary |
Contains essays examining the perceived tensions between British and German cultural traditions and beliefs before 1914 and how popular literature, public debate, cultural distinction, and war-time propaganda determined historical, political, and military events leading to war |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-314) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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German literature -- Themes, motives
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English literature -- Themes, motives.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Germany -- Literature and the war
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war
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Comparative literature -- German and English.
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Comparative literature -- English and German.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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Civilization.
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Comparative literature -- English and German.
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Comparative literature -- German and English.
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English literature.
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English literature -- Themes, motives.
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German literature.
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German literature -- Themes, motives.
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War and literature.
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Kultur
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Weltkrieg 1914-1918
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Kulturbeziehungen
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Literatur
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Weltkrieg 1914-1918, Motiv
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Kulturbeziehungen Motiv
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Eerste Wereldoorlog.
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Culturele aspecten.
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Första världskriget 1914-1918 i litteraturen.
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Tysk litteratur -- historia -- 1900-talet.
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Engelsk litteratur -- historia -- 1900-talet.
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| SUBJECT |
Germany -- Civilization -- 20th century
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Great Britain -- Civilization -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056626
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Germany.
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Great Britain.
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Deutschland
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Großbritannien
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Europa (geografie)
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Leeds <2002>
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Englisch.
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Deutsch.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bridgham, Frederick George Thomas, 1943-
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| ISBN |
9781571136794 |
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1571136797 |
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1281949507 |
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9781281949509 |
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9786611949501 |
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661194950X |
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