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The First World War as a Clash of Cultures

By Fred Bridgham

The First World War as a Clash of Cultures Contemporary literature

The First World War as a Clash of Cultures

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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.
Product details
Number of Pages:
348
Release Date:
2006-09-08
Publication Date:
2006-09-08
Publisher:
Camden House
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1571133402
ISBN13:
9781571133403
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
716 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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