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Germany as model and monster : allusions in English fiction, 1830s-1930s / Gisela Argyle.
Van Pelt Library PR868.G36 A73 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Argyle, Gisela, 1939-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Germany--In literature.
- Germany.
- English fiction--German influences.
- Physical Description:
- x, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2002]
- Contents:
- 1 Bildung and the Bildungsroman 12
- 2 The Bildungsroman Retailored: Carlyle and Goethe 28
- 3 The Bildungsroman Assimilated: Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Ernest Maltravers and Alice 43
- 4 The Bildungsroman as Foil: George Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel and The Adventures of Harry Richmond 56
- 5 The "Philistines' Nets": George Eliot's Middlemarch 68
- 6 Regeneration in German Keys: George Eliot's Daniel Deronda 85
- 7 Infidel Novels 104
- 8 Pessimism and Its "Overcoming": Schopenhauer and Nietzsche 126
- 9 Prussianized Germany and the Second Weimar Germany 156.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0773523510
- OCLC:
- 48374782
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