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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783798403321

Autore

Argyle Gisela <1939->

Titolo

Germany as model and monster [[electronic resource] ] : allusions in English fiction, 1830s-1930s / / Gisela Argyle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca [N.Y.], : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-86038-0

9786612860386

0-7735-7013-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 p.)

Disciplina

823.009/3243

Soggetti

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

German literature - Appreciation - England

Bildungsromans - History and criticism

English fiction - German influences

Germany In literature

Germany Foreign public opinion, British

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Bildung and the Bildungsroman -- The Bildungsroman retailored: Carlyle and Goethe -- The Bildungsroman assimilated: Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Ernest Maltravers and Alice -- The Bildungsroman as foil: George Meredith's The ordeal of Richard Feverel and The adventures of Harry Richmond -- The "Philistines' nets": George Eliot's Middlemarch -- Regeneration in German keys: George Eliot's Daniel Deronda -- Infidel novels -- Pessimism and its "overcoming": Schopenhauer and Nietzsche -- Prussianized Germany and the second Weimar Germany.

Sommario/riassunto

By examining the works of George Eliot, Carlyle, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, George Meredith, George Gissing, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, and D.H. Lawrence, as well as several post-World War II novels, Argyle explores the Goethean ideal of Bildung and the Bildungsroman (self-culture and the apprenticeship novel), Heinrich Heine's anti-philistinism, music, the Tübingen higher criticism, Schopenhauer's and



Nietzsche's philosophies, Prussianism, and avant-garde culture in the Weimar Republic. To establish the status of these allusions in the public conversation, Argyle moves between literary and extra-literary contexts, including biographical material about the authors as well as information from contemporary literary works, periodical articles, and other documentation that indicates the understanding authors could assume from their readers. Her methodology combines theories of allusion and intertextuality with reception theory.