The First World War as a Clash of Cultures

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Edited by Fred Bridgham, University of Leeds

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: February 2013
Print publication year:: 2006
Online ISBN:: 9781571136794

Subjects:: Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, European Studies
Series:: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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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 historical, political, and, ultimately, military events. This vexed symbiosis is traced first through a survey of popular fiction, from alarmist British and German "invasion novels" to the visions of Erskine Childers and Saki and even P.G. Wodehouse; contrastingly, the "mixed-marriage novels" of von Arnim, Spottiswoode, and Wylie are considered. Further topics include D. H. Lawrence's ambivalent relationship with Germany, Carl Sternheim's coded anti-militarism, H. G. Wells's and Kurd Lasswitz's visions of their countries under Martian invasion, Nietzsche as the embodiment of Prussian warmongering, and the rise in Germany of anglophobic, anti-Spencerian evolutionism. Case histories of the positions of German and English academics in regard to the conflict round out the volume. CONTRIBUTORS: IAIN BOYD WHITE, HELENA RAGG-KIRKBY, RHYS WILLIAMS, INGO CORNILS, NICHOLAS MARTIN, GREGORY MOORE, STEFAN MANZ, ANDREAS HUTHER, HOLGER KLEIN. Fred Bridgham is Senior Lecturer in the Department of German at the University of Leeds.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgments
pp vii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-40

Writers
pp 41-42

1 - Anglo-German Conflict in Popular Fiction, 1870–1914
pp 43-100

2 - Perversion and Pestilence: D. H. Lawrence and the Germans
pp 101-116

3 - “Und muß ich von Dante schweigen, zieht Italien gegen uns?”: Carl Sternheim's Opposition to the First World War
pp 117-128

4 - The Martians Are Coming! War, Peace, Love, and Reflection in H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds and Kurd Lasswitz's Auf zwei Planeten
pp 129-144

Thinkers
pp 145-146

5 - Nietzsche as Hate-Figure in Britain's Great War: “The Execrable Neech”
pp 147-166

6 - Darwinism and National Identity, 1870–1918
pp 167-182

7 - Bernhardi and “The Ideas of 1914”
pp 183-212

Academics
pp 213-214

8 - Peacemaker and Warmonger: Alexander Tille and the Limits of Anglo-German Intercultural Transfer
pp 215-230

9 - “In Politik verschieden, in Freundschaft wie immer”: The German Celtic Scholar Kuno Meyer and the First World War
pp 231-244

10 - Austrian (and Some German) Scholars of English and the First World War
pp 245-280

Works Cited
pp 281-314

Notes on the Contributors
pp 315-316

Index
pp 317-336

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