Fanny Von Arnstein: Daughter of the Enlightenment - Couverture souple

Spiel, Hilde

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1939931037 ISBN 13 : 9781939931030

Editeur : New Vessel Press, 2013

Synopsis

A beautifully written account of a major figure in the history of European Jewry, women's emancipation and cultural patronage.

Berlin-born Fanny von Arnstein married a financier to the Austro-Hungarian imperial court, and in 1798 her husband became the first unconverted Jew in Austria to be granted the title of baron. Soon Fanny hosted an ever more splendid salon which attracted the leading figures of her day, including Madame de Staël and Arthur Schopenhauer. Hilde Spiel's biography provides a vivid portrait of a brave and passionate woman, illuminating a central era in European cultural and social history.

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À propos de l'auteur

Hilde Spiel was the grande dame of 20th century Austrian literature. She was born in Vienna and studied philosophy at the city s university. She left Vienna for England in 1936 amid rising anti-Semitism and because of her opposition to the clerico-fascist Austrian regime, but returned after World War Two and had a distinguished and prolific career as the cultural correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The Guardian and The New Statesman. Spiel wrote novels, works of cultural history, volumes of essays and literary criticism and translated the works of modern British writers including W.H. Auden, Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene and Tom Stoppard.

Christine Shuttleworth grew up in London, the daughter of the German-language writers Hilde Spiel and Peter de Mendelssohn, who emigrated there in 1936. A graduate of Somerville College, Oxford, she has served as executive editor of the international journal The Indexer. She has translated several books by Hilde Spiel: Fanny von Arnstein, Daughter of the Enlightenment; The Dark and the Bright, Memoirs 1911-1989; and Return to Vienna. Among her other translations are Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht: The Story of a Friendship by Erdmut Wizisla and Human Space by O. F. Bollnow.

Michael Z. Wise spent five years as a Vienna-based correspondent for Reuters and The Washington Post. He is author of Capital Dilemma: Germany's Search for a New Architecture of Democracy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Vessel Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1939931037
• ISBN 13: 9781939931030
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 371
• Coordonnées du fabricant: New Vessel Press; https://newvesselpress.com/?s=New+Vessel+Press; ; 245 West 107th Street, #13F; NEW YORK; NY; 10025; Etats-Unis
• Personne responsable: non disponible