The Novel in Anglo-German Context
Cultural Cross-Currents and Affinities
Published on 1. January 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
476 pages
978-90-420-0698-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Novel in Anglo-German Context focuses on cross-currents and affinities between fiction written in English and fiction written in German, and the thirty-one contributors to this volume cover authors from the eighteenth century to the present day.
The essays collected in this book approach the theme of Anglo-German cultural cross-fertilisation from a number of different angles. These include the reception and translation of foreign authors, the examination of exile writers, the comparative exploration of aspects which are crucial to both German, Austrian or Swiss and British or Irish novelists at a given point in time, the fictional depiction of the respective other culture, Anglo-German images in the novel, as well as the role of the novel in the curricula of German and British secondary education.
The topics chosen by the contributors offer stimulating views on a wide range of subject areas, and the volume is essential reading for anyone with a broad interest in Anglo-Irish, German, Austrian and Swiss literature, the development of fiction as well as Anglo-German literary and cultural relations.
The essays collected in this book approach the theme of Anglo-German cultural cross-fertilisation from a number of different angles. These include the reception and translation of foreign authors, the examination of exile writers, the comparative exploration of aspects which are crucial to both German, Austrian or Swiss and British or Irish novelists at a given point in time, the fictional depiction of the respective other culture, Anglo-German images in the novel, as well as the role of the novel in the curricula of German and British secondary education.
The topics chosen by the contributors offer stimulating views on a wide range of subject areas, and the volume is essential reading for anyone with a broad interest in Anglo-Irish, German, Austrian and Swiss literature, the development of fiction as well as Anglo-German literary and cultural relations.
Reviews / Votes
"...offering a series of perceptive, well-researched studies of the novel in an Anglo-German context which in their scholarly excellence do credit to the University of Leeds [...] and to Susanne Stark..." in: Archiv fuer das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Band 239, Jahrgang 154, 2. Halbjahresband 2002, pp. 376-378More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
1007 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-0698-0 (9789042006980)
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Content
Preface
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Hermann J. REAL: Gulliver's Travels into Remote Eighteenth-Century Germany
Astrid KRAKE: Der deutsche Richardson: UEbersetzungsgeschichte als Beitrag zur Rezeptionsgeschichte
Gerald BAER: Cornelia Goethe - An Individuality out of Richardson's Novels
Daniel HALL: The Gothic Tide: Schauerroman and Gothic Novel in the Late Eighteenth Century
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Rosemary ASHTON: The Figure of the German Professor in Nineteenth-Century English Fiction
Fred BRIDGHAM: Kleist's Familie Schroffenstein and 'Monk' Lewis's Mistrust: Give and Take
Hartmut STEINECKE: British-deutsche Romanlektueren im fruehen neunzehnten Jahrhundert - Hoffmann und Scott zum Beispiel
Peter HASUBEK: Das Geheimnis des schwarzen Ritters oder Scott und Immermann
Mary HOWARD: The Sphinx of the European World. German Fiction and the 'Novel' in Great Britain after the Time of Napoleon
Christina UJMA: England und die Englaender in Fanny Lewalds Romanen und Reiseberichten
Susanne STARK: Dickens in German Guise? Anglo-German Cross-Currents in the Nineteenth-Century Reception of Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben
Norbert BACHLEITNER: Die deutsche Rezeption englischer Romanautorinnen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, insbesondere Charlotte Brontes
Michael ANDERMATT: 'Engelland' als Metapher. Walter Scott, Augustin Thierry und das mittelalterliche England in Conrad Ferdinand Meyers Novelle Der Heilige
Patrick BRIDGWATER: Who's Afraid of Sidonia von Bork?
Diane MILBURN: 'Denn die Toten reiten schnell': Anglo-German Cross-Currents in Bram Stoker's Dracula
TWENTIETH CENTURY
Elmar SCHENKEL: Paradoxical Affinities. Chesterton and Nietzsche
Andreas KRAMER: Nationality and Avant-Garde: Anglo-German Affairs in Wyndham Lewis's Tarr
Peter SKRINE: Hall Caine's The Woman of Knockaloe. An Anglo-German War Novel from the Isle of Man
Andre BUCHER: Joyce und das literarische Labor der Moderne. Die deutsche Ulysses-Rezeption in der Zwischenkriegszeit
Holger KLEIN: The Little Man in the Big City in Earlier Twentieth-Century English and German Novels: Notes towards a Comparative Study
J.M. RITICHIE: Writing in the Language of the Other: German and Austrian Novelists in Exile in Great Britain
Joachim SCHWEND: David Lodge, Out of the Shelter. Rites of Passage into Paradise?
Ute DAPPRICH-BARRETT: Magical Realism: Sources and Affinities in Contemporary German and English Writing
David HORROCKS: The Undisciplined Past: Novel Approaches to History in Grass and Rushdie
David A. GREEN: Authoritarians and Chamchas: Social Milieux and Politics in Grass's Die Blechtrommel and Rushdie's Midnight's Children
Gundula SHARMAN: Elective Affinities with Ireland: John Banville's The Newton Letter and Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften
Sabine HOTHO: 'The Rescue of Some Stranded Ghost' - The Rewriting of Literary History in Contemporary British and German Novels
Harald HUSEMANN: If Adolf Had Come; If Helmut Were to Come
Osman DURRANI: The Campus and its Novel: Dietrich Schwanitz's Literary Exploration of German University Life
Adelheid PETRUSCHKE-ABRAMOVICI: Der englische Roman auf dem deutschen Lehrplan
Gary CHAMBERS: The German Novel on the A-Level Syllabus
Notes on Contributors
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Hermann J. REAL: Gulliver's Travels into Remote Eighteenth-Century Germany
Astrid KRAKE: Der deutsche Richardson: UEbersetzungsgeschichte als Beitrag zur Rezeptionsgeschichte
Gerald BAER: Cornelia Goethe - An Individuality out of Richardson's Novels
Daniel HALL: The Gothic Tide: Schauerroman and Gothic Novel in the Late Eighteenth Century
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Rosemary ASHTON: The Figure of the German Professor in Nineteenth-Century English Fiction
Fred BRIDGHAM: Kleist's Familie Schroffenstein and 'Monk' Lewis's Mistrust: Give and Take
Hartmut STEINECKE: British-deutsche Romanlektueren im fruehen neunzehnten Jahrhundert - Hoffmann und Scott zum Beispiel
Peter HASUBEK: Das Geheimnis des schwarzen Ritters oder Scott und Immermann
Mary HOWARD: The Sphinx of the European World. German Fiction and the 'Novel' in Great Britain after the Time of Napoleon
Christina UJMA: England und die Englaender in Fanny Lewalds Romanen und Reiseberichten
Susanne STARK: Dickens in German Guise? Anglo-German Cross-Currents in the Nineteenth-Century Reception of Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben
Norbert BACHLEITNER: Die deutsche Rezeption englischer Romanautorinnen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, insbesondere Charlotte Brontes
Michael ANDERMATT: 'Engelland' als Metapher. Walter Scott, Augustin Thierry und das mittelalterliche England in Conrad Ferdinand Meyers Novelle Der Heilige
Patrick BRIDGWATER: Who's Afraid of Sidonia von Bork?
Diane MILBURN: 'Denn die Toten reiten schnell': Anglo-German Cross-Currents in Bram Stoker's Dracula
TWENTIETH CENTURY
Elmar SCHENKEL: Paradoxical Affinities. Chesterton and Nietzsche
Andreas KRAMER: Nationality and Avant-Garde: Anglo-German Affairs in Wyndham Lewis's Tarr
Peter SKRINE: Hall Caine's The Woman of Knockaloe. An Anglo-German War Novel from the Isle of Man
Andre BUCHER: Joyce und das literarische Labor der Moderne. Die deutsche Ulysses-Rezeption in der Zwischenkriegszeit
Holger KLEIN: The Little Man in the Big City in Earlier Twentieth-Century English and German Novels: Notes towards a Comparative Study
J.M. RITICHIE: Writing in the Language of the Other: German and Austrian Novelists in Exile in Great Britain
Joachim SCHWEND: David Lodge, Out of the Shelter. Rites of Passage into Paradise?
Ute DAPPRICH-BARRETT: Magical Realism: Sources and Affinities in Contemporary German and English Writing
David HORROCKS: The Undisciplined Past: Novel Approaches to History in Grass and Rushdie
David A. GREEN: Authoritarians and Chamchas: Social Milieux and Politics in Grass's Die Blechtrommel and Rushdie's Midnight's Children
Gundula SHARMAN: Elective Affinities with Ireland: John Banville's The Newton Letter and Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften
Sabine HOTHO: 'The Rescue of Some Stranded Ghost' - The Rewriting of Literary History in Contemporary British and German Novels
Harald HUSEMANN: If Adolf Had Come; If Helmut Were to Come
Osman DURRANI: The Campus and its Novel: Dietrich Schwanitz's Literary Exploration of German University Life
Adelheid PETRUSCHKE-ABRAMOVICI: Der englische Roman auf dem deutschen Lehrplan
Gary CHAMBERS: The German Novel on the A-Level Syllabus
Notes on Contributors