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------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: Wälle Philipp <[log in to unmask]> Hannah Burdekin The Ambivalent Author Five German Writers and their Jewish Characters, 1848-1914 PETER LANG - European Academic Publishers Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien, 2002. 338 pp. British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature. Vol. 29 General Editors: H.S. Reiss and W.E. Yates ISBN 3-906767-05-1 / US-ISBN 0-8204-5339-0 pb. sFr. 82.- / E1* 56.- / E2** 52.30 / £ 34.- / US-$ 49.95 * includes VAT and is only valid for Germany and Austria. ** does not include VAT. This study addresses the problems raised by the ambivalent comments about or portrayals of the Jews to be found in the writings of Gustav Freytag, Wilhelm Raabe, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Theodor Fontane and the early Thomas Mann. Why was it that these supposedly tolerant and liberal-minded men could use the language and images of antisemitism in their non-fiction and fiction? The book considers the question within the context of the unequal German-Jewish relationship in the period before, during and after Jewish emancipation. This study exposes the problematic way in which liberal-minded Germans thought about and treated the Jews in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Contents: Gustav Freytag: The Limitations of Liberalism - Wilhelm Raabe: The Master, the 'Schöne Semitische Zauberin' and her 'Krummnasige Verwandtschaft' - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch: Erratic Solidarity - Theodor Fontane: The Uncertain Critic - Thomas Mann: The Blindness of the 'bequeme Mehrzahl'. The Author: Hannah Burdekin read Modern Languages at Leicester University before completing her DPhil thesis on Jewish characters in nineteenth-century German literature at Oxford. She works for the Department of Health in London on government strategy for reducing drug and alcohol abuse. Direct order: http://www.peterlang.net/all/remote.cfm?vDom=3&vRub=3060&vID=76705 --------------------------------------------------------------- You may also send your order to: --------------------------------------------------------------- PETER LANG AG European Academic Publishers Moosstrasse 1 P.O. Box 350 CH-2542 Pieterlen/Switzerland Tel ++41 (0)32 376 17 17 Fax ++41 (0)32 376 17 27 e-mail: [log in to unmask] Homepage: http://www.peterlang.net