![]() The present volume brings together newly edited versions of selected papers delivered on that occasion, with an additional invited contribution on popular fiction. WISH TO EXPRESS my particular thanks to Helena Ragg-Kirkby, indispensable fellow coordinator of the international “Peacemakers and Warmongers” conference held at the University of Leeds in April 2002. Thinkers 5: Nietzsche as Hate-Figure in Britain’s Great War: “The Execrable Neech” Nicholas MartinĦ: Darwinism and National Identity, 1870–1918 Gregory Mooreħ: Bernhardi and “The Ideas of 1914” Fred BridghamĪcademics 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 Huetherġ0: Austrian (and Some German) Scholars of English and the First World War Holger Klein Wells’s The War of the Worlds and Kurd Lasswitz’s Auf zwei Planeten Ingo Cornils Williams 4: The Martians Are Coming! War, Peace, Love, and Reflection in 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. Writers 1: Anglo-German Conflict in Popular Fiction 1870–1914 Iain Boyd Whyte 2: Perversion and Pestilence: D. This publication is printed on acid-free paper. Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered) PT405.F495 2006 820.9'358-dc22 2006009905 A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library. Bridgham, Frederick George Thomas, 1943– II. Literature, Comparative - English and German. Literature, Comparative- German and English. ![]() Great Britain - Civilization - 20th century. World War, 1914–1918 - Great Britain - Literature and the war. World War, 1914–1918 - Germany - Literature and the war. English literature - 20th century - History and criticism. German literature - 20th century - History and criticism. (Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620, USA and of Boydell & Brewer Limited PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK ISBN: 1–57113–340–2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The First World War as a clash of cultures / edited by Fred Bridgham. First published 2006 by Camden House Camden House is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Inc. Except as permitted under current legislation, no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded, or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and CultureĬopyright © 2006 by the Editor and Contributors All Rights Reserved. Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK or: EDITED BY FRED BRIDGHAM ![]() Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620-2731, USA and P.O. Cover design by Anne Reekie.įrom alarmist British and German “invasion novels” to the visions ofĬamden House 668 Mt. Watt Ltd on behalf of the Literary Executors of the Estate of H. Jacket images: Etching of Nietzsche by Hans Olde, 1899. Fred Bridgham is Senior Lecturer in the Department of German at the University of Leeds. ![]() Williams, Ingo Cornils, Nicholas Martin, Gregory Moore, Stefan Manz, Andreas Huether, Holger Klein, Fred Bridgham. Case histories of the positions of German and English academics in regard to the conflict round out the volume.Ĭontributors: Iain Boyd White, Helena Ragg-Kirkby, Rhys W. ![]() Wells’s and Kurd Lasswitz’s visions of their countries under Martian invasion, Nietzsche and Bernhardi as the perceived voices of Prussian militarism, and the rise in Germany of anglophobic, anti-Spencerian evolutionism. Lawrence’s ambivalent relationship with Germany, Carl Sternheim’s coded anti-militarism, H. Wodehouse contrastingly, the “mixed-marriage novels” of von Arnim, Spottiswoode, and Wylie are considered. This vexed symbiosis is traced first through a survey of popular fiction, Erskine Childers and Saki and even P. Historical, political, and, ultimately, military events. The First World War as a Clash of Cultures 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 ![]()
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