The First World War As a Clash of Cultures - Couverture rigide

 
9781571133403: The First World War As a Clash of Cultures
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1571133402 ISBN 13 : 9781571133403
Editeur : Camden House Inc, 2006

Synopsis

This volume of essays examines the perceived rift between the British and German intellectual and cultural traditions before 1914 and how the resultant war of words both reflects and helped determine historical, political, and, ultimately, military events. This vexed symbiosis is traced first through a survey of popular fiction, from alarmist British and German "invasion novels" to the visions of Erskine Childers and Saki and even P.G. Wodehouse; contrastingly, the "mixed-marriage novels" of von Arnim, Spottiswoode, and Wylie are considered. Further topics include D. H. Lawrence's ambivalent relationship with Germany, Carl Sternheim's coded anti-militarism, H. G. Wells's and Kurd Lasswitz's visions of their countries under Martian invasion, Nietzsche as the embodiment of Prussian warmongering, and the rise in Germany of anglophobic, anti-Spencerian evolutionism. Case histories of the positions of German and English academics in regard to the conflict round out the volume.

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À propos de l?auteur

Frederick G.T. Bridgham is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Leeds.

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Éditeur
Camden House Inc
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1571133402
ISBN 13 
9781571133403
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
344
Éditeur
Bridgham Dr Emeritus Fred
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