Royal Highness - Softcover

Mann, Thomas; Curtis, A. Cecil; Sica, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520076737 ISBN 13: 9780520076730

Publisher: University of California Press, 1992

Synopsis

Royal Highness is the delightfully ironic tale of a small, decadent German duchy and its invigoration by the intellect and values of an independent-minded American woman. Peopled with a range of characters from aristocrat to artisan, Royal Highness provides a microcosmic view of Europe before the Great War.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"The great virtue of Royal Highness is its relaxed, fairy-tale quality that naturally brings the reader inside that 'Edwardian' calm which preceded everything common to contemporary social life. It is very easy to make connections between the book and theories of stratification, statemaking, ritual, legitimacy, even the political economy of preindustrialized states."―Alan Sica, author of Weber, Irrationality, and Social Order

About the Author:

Thomas Mann (1875-1955), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929, wrote essays as well as some of the great novels of the twentieth century, including Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, Joseph and His Brothers, and Doctor Faustus. Russell A. Berman is the author of The Rise of the Modern German Novel.
Alan Sica is the author of Weber, Irrationality, and Social Order.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0520076737
• ISBN 13: 9780520076730
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360