The First World War as a clash of cultures /
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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, NY :
Camden House,
2006.
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Colección: | Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.