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PETER LANG - European Academic Publishers
are pleased to announce a new book by
Christian Emden / David Midgley (eds.)
GERMAN LITERATURE, HISTORY AND THE NATION
Papers from the Conference 'The Fragile Tradition', Cambridge 2002.
Volume 2
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien,
2004. 393 pp., 4 ill. Cultural History and Literary Imagination. Vol. 2
Edited by Christian Emden and David Midgley
ISBN 3-03910-169-2 / US-ISBN 0-8204-6979-3 pb.
sFr. 96.00 / EUR* 65.70 / EUR** 61.40 / £ 43.00 / US-$ 73.95
* includes VAT - only valid for Germany and Austria
** does not include VAT
This is the second of three volumes based on papers given at the
'Fragile Tradition' conference in Cambridge, 2002. Together they
provide a conspectus of current research on the cultural, historical
and literary imagination of the German-speaking world across the whole
of the modern period.
This volume highlights the connections between cultural identity and
the sense of nationhood which are to be found in literary writing, the
history of ideas, and the interaction between European cultures from
the late Middle Ages to the present day. It focuses particularly on the
way myths of cultural identity are passed on and transformed
historically; on the fashioning of various models of modern German
identity with reference to the cultures of Greece, France, England and
Renaissance Italy; on the reflection of 19th-century nationalism in
literary writing and ideas about language; and on the ways in which
cultural values have asserted themselves in relation to moments of
catastrophe and abrupt political change in the 1920s, the 1940s, and
the 1990s.
Contents:
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Christian Emden/David Midgley: Introduction - Joachim Whaley: The Old
Reich in Modern Memory: Recent Controversies Concerning the 'Relevance'
of Early Modern German History - Ulrich Gaier: National Myths in
Anthropological Perspective - Manfred Engel: Deutschland/Hesperien:
Kulturelle und nationale Identitätsstiftung in Hölderlins später
Dichtung - Constanze Güthenke: Nature in Arms: Greek Locality, Freedom,
and German Philhellenism - Jörn Steigerwald: Galanterie als kulturelle
Identitätsbildung: Französisch-deutscher Kulturtransfer im Zeichen der
"Querelles" (Dominique Bouhours - Christian Thomasius - Benjamin
Neukirch) - Martina Lauster: The Gentleman Ideal from Lichtenberg to
Hofmannsthal - Lothar L. Schneider: Liberalismus, Positivismus,
Anglophilie: Das liberale Konzept der Kulturgeschichtsschreibung und
die Rezeption Thomas Buckles im 19. Jahrhundert - Martin A. Ruehl:
Blut, "bellezza", Bürgertugend: Thomas Manns "Fiorenza" und der
Renaissancekult um 1900 - Kveta E. Benes: Linguistic History and
Memories of National Origin, 1806-15 - Charlotte Woodford: Contrasting
Discourses of Nationalism in Historical Novels by Freytag and Fontane -
Anita Bunyan: The Aesthetics of Assimilation: Cultural Imagination and
German-Jewish Identity in the "Zeitromane" of Berthold Auerbach -
Manuela Achilles: Nationalist Violence and Republican Identity in
Weimar Germany: The Murder of Walther Rathenau - Simon Ward: Ruins and
the Imagination of Cultural Tradition after 1945 - Ingeborg Cleve:
Subverted Heritage and Subversive Memory: "Weimarer Klassik" in the GDR
and the Bauerbach Case.
The Editors:
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Christian Emden studied at Konstanz and Cambridge (PhD 2000), and is
now Assistant Professor of German at Rice University, Houston. He was a
Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, from 2000 to 2003.
He is the author of "Nietzsche on Language, Consciousness, and the
Body" (2004), and is now investigating the relation between language
and history in 19th-century classical scholarship and the emergence of
'historische Kulturwissenschaft' in the early 20th century.
David Midgley studied at Oxford (DPhil 1975). He was a Humboldt Scholar
in 1979, and is now Reader in German Literature and Culture at the
University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College. He is the
author of "Writing Weimar" (2000) and many other publications in the
field of German literary modernism.
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