The Novel in Anglo-German Context: Cultural Cross-currents and Affinities : Papers from the Conference Held at the University of Leeds from 15 to 17 September 1997

Susanne Stark

Rodopi, 2000 - Literary Criticism - 466 pages

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.

Contents

• Eighteenth Century: 1
• Der deutsche Richardson Übersetzungsgeschichte: 23
• Cornelia Goethe: 37
• The Gothic Tide Schauerroman and Gothic Novel: 51
• Nineteenth Century: 61
• Kleists Familie Schroffenstein: 75
• Britischdeutsche Romanlektüren im frühen: 103
• Das Geheimnis des schwarzen Ritters: 117
• The Sphinx of the European World German Fiction: 129
• England und die Engländer in Fanny Lewalds: 145
• Dickens in German Guise? AngloGerman CrossCurrents: 157
• Die deutsche Rezeption englischer Romanautorinnen: 173
• Engelland als Metapher Walter Scott: 195
• Whos Afraid of Sidonia von Bork?: 213
• Denn die Toten reiten schnell: 229
• Twentieth Century: 240
• Nationality and AvantGarde: 253
• Hall Caines The Woman of Knockaloe: 263
• Joyce und das literarische Labor der Moderne: 277
• The Little Man in the Big City in Earlier TwentiethCentury: 287
• Writing in the Language of the Other: 307
• David Lodge Out of the Shelter: 317
• Magical Realism Sources and Affinities: 333
• The Undisciplined Past: 347
• Authoritarians and Chamchas Social Milieux and Politics: 357
• The Rescue of Some Stranded Ghost The Rewriting: 385
• If Adolf Had Come If Helmut Were to Come: 399
• The Campus and its Novel Dietrich Schwanitzs: 425
• The German Novel on the ALevel Syllabus: 451

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Novel in Anglo-German Context: Cultural Cross-currents and Affinities : Papers from the Conference Held at the University of Leeds from 15 to 17 September 1997; Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495; Volume 38 of Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen Und Vergleichende; Issue 38 of Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, ISSN 0929-6999
• Editor: Susanne Stark
• Contributor: Susanne Stark
• Publisher: Rodopi, 2000
• ISBN: 9042006986, 9789042006980
• Length: 466 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / General