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Strange meetings : Anglo-German literary encounters from 1910 to 1960

Title: Strange meetings : Anglo-German literary encounters from 1910 to 1960 / Peter Edgerly Firchow.
Author: Firchow, Peter Edgerly, 1937-
Publication: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2008.

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Description

xiii, 283 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Building upon his earlier book "The Death of the German Cousin", renowned author Peter Edgerly Firchow focuses "Strange Meetings" on major modern British writers from Eliot to Auden and explores the development of British conceptions and misconceptions of Germany and Germans from 1910 to 1960. While the book does not aim to be inclusive, it casts light on representative places, which will sensitize readers when they encounter similar phenomena in other contexts. The individual chapters highlight particularly significant moments in the problematic relationship between Britain and Germany during the first half of the last century. Firchow focuses on the personal encounter with Germany by Eliot, Lawrence, and Brooke in the years immediately preceding the Great War; on the tragic conflict between vocation and national identity faced by German academics specializing in English literature (especially Shakespeare), as well as by British academics specializing in German literature (especially Goethe), during the First World War; on Christopher Isherwood's formative years in Berlin during the final years of the Weimar Republic; on the appeal of Fascism to British intellectuals and literary figures during the 1930s (especially Yeats, Eliot, and Lawrence); and on the partial and ambiguous post-war reconciliation achieved in W.H. Auden's writings about his life in a German-speaking country from 1957 until his death in 1973. The introduction and conclusion of the book place these encounters in the context of current British views of Germans and vice versa."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-278) and index.

Contents

Sunlight in the Hofgarten: Eliot, Lawrence, and Brooke in pre-1914 Munich -- Shakespeare, Goethe, and the war of the Professors, 1914-1918 -- Herr Issywoo (Christopher Isherwood) discovers Berlin -- The attractions of fascism for the literary avant-garde in Britain between the wars -- W.H. Auden and Josef Weinheber: poets of Kirchstetten.

ISBN

9780813215334
0813215331

LCCN

2008004213

OCLC

ocn191865437
191865437
SCSB-14170310

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library