Germany as model and monster
Subtitle: allusions in English fiction, 1830s-1930s
By: Gisela Argyle.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca [N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Germany -- In literature; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; German literature -- Appreciation -- England; Bildungsromans -- History and criticism; English fiction -- German influences; Germany -- Foreign public opinion, British
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-249) and index.
Table of contents: title: Bildung and the Bildungsroman; title: The Bildungsroman retailored: Carlyle and Goethe; title: The Bildungsroman assimilated: Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Ernest Maltravers and Alice; title: The Bildungsroman as foil: George Meredith's The ordeal of Richard Feverel and The adventures of Harry Richmond; title: The "Philistines' nets": George Eliot's Middlemarch; title: Regeneration in German keys: George Eliot's Daniel Deronda; title: Infidel novels; title: Pessimism and its "overcoming": Schopenhauer and Nietzsche; title: Prussianized Germany and the second Weimar Germany.