Secret Sharers: Joseph Conrad's Cultural Reception in Germany (Cultural History and Literary Imagination) VOL 4 - Softcover

Fothergill, Anthony

 
9783039102716: Secret Sharers: Joseph Conrad's Cultural Reception in Germany (Cultural History and Literary Imagination) VOL 4
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ISBN 10: 3039102710 ISBN 13: 9783039102716
Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2007

Synopsis

This is the first book-length account of Joseph Conrad’s reception in Germany, a virtually unresearched area of Conrad studies. It demonstrates that Conrad was read and used by his German readers as a cosmopolitan literary and moral voice against the prevailing nationalism of Germany in the ‘dark times’ of the 1930s and 1940s, when their own voices were being silenced. Challenging the longstanding assumption that Germany remained largely indifferent to his works, this book demonstrates that, particularly after the translation of the complete fiction commencing in the 1920s, Conrad’s works achieved near cult status in Germany. On the basis of diaries and letters, contemporary reviews and essays, unpublished archival material as well as novels and films, the author illuminates the range and importance of Conrad’s presence as a powerful liberating imagination within twentieth-century German culture. Championed by Thomas Mann, lauded by Hermann Hesse, and decried as ‘Conrad the Jew’ by the Nazis, Conrad has remained an influential presence in post-war German culture. The study offers a completely fresh perspective on Conrad’s works and speaks eloquently for the importance of recognizing the way trans-national literary cultural relations have helped to shape European cultural history.

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About the Author

The Author: Anthony Fothergill teaches English literature and cultural theory at the University of Exeter, and has also taught at Heidelberg University (Germany) and Kenyon College (USA). He has published a book-length study on Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, edited works by Conrad and Oscar Wilde, and written widely on modernism and modernity, including essays on Henry James, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, F.M. Ford, Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin.

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Publisher
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3039102710
ISBN 13 
9783039102716
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
274

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