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  • Vorkoloniale Afrika-Penetrationen

    Diskursive Vorstoeße ins «Herz des großen Continents» in der deutschen Reiseliteratur (ca. 1850–1890)

    de Florian Krobb ...
    Series Libro 51 - Zivilisationen und Geschichte / Civilizations and History / Civilisations et Histoire
    Die Studie untersucht, wie Reiseberichte und verwandte Publikationen diskursiv einen Sog nach Afrika erzeugten. Zentrale Verfahren sind die Inszenierung der eigenen Pionierleistung, der Rivalität mit Konkurrenten um Zugriff auf Afrika und der gegenseitigen Überbietung und Vermächtniserfüllung. Weiterhin werden thematische Bereiche – wie Sklaverei oder Despotismus in afrikanischen Gesellschaften ... Leer más

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  • Wilhelm Raabe

    Global Themes - International Perspectives

    de Florian Krobb ...
    "Wilhelm Raabe (1831-1910) is one of the major figures of 19th-century German Realist writing, acknowledged as an innovator both stylistically and thematically. But until now there has been little concentration on the international and postcolonial dimensions of Raabe's work - his literary critique of colonialism, his engagement with modernization and globalization, his involvement in 19th century ... Leer más

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  • Ireland [1913]

    Traducido por Florian Krobb ...
    What was happening in Ireland on the eve of World War I? In 1913, the ‘Irish Question’ was hotly discussed in European capitals because on the eve of the Great War, the stability in the British Empire’s ‘back yard’ was considered of the utmost strategic importance.The Berliner Tageblatt, the leading liberal paper in the German capital, dispatched its rising star reporter Richard Arnold Bermann ... Leer más

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  • Other Germans

    Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich

    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    It's hard to imagine an issue or image more riveting than Black Germans during the Third Reich. Yet accounts of their lives are virtually nonexistent, despite the fact that they lived through a regime dedicated to racial purity.Tina Campt's Other Germans tells the story of this largely forgotten group of individuals, with important distinctions from other accounts. Most strikingly, Campt centers ... Leer más

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  • Necropolis

    London and Its Dead

    From Roman burial rites to the horrors of the plague, from the founding of the great Victorian cemeteries to the development of cremation and the current approach of metropolitan society towards death and bereavement -- including more recent trends to displays of collective grief and the cult of mourning, such as that surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales -- NECROPOLIS: LONDON AND ITS ... Leer más

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  • Necessary Luxuries

    Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815

    de Matt Erlin ...
    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroad—coffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to name a few. Yet one of the most widely distributed luxury commodities in the period was not new at all, and was produced locally—the book. In Necessary Luxuries Matt Erlin considers books and the culture around books during this period, focusing ... Leer más

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  • The Topography of Modernity

    Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy

    Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    Karl Philipp Moritz (d. 1793) was one of the most innovative writers of the late Enlightenment in Germany. A novelist, travel writer, editor, and teacher he is probably best known today for his autobiographical novel Anton Reiser (1785–90) and for his treatises on aesthetics, foremost among them Über die bildende Nachahmung des Schönen (On the Formative Imitation of the Beautiful) (1788). In this ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

    Edición de Nicholas Saul ...
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    The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw an extraordinary flowering of arts and culture in Germany which produced many of the world's finest writers, artists, philosophers and composers. This volume, first published in 2004, offers students and specialists an authoritative introduction to that dazzling cultural phenomenon, now known collectively as German Romanticism. Individual ... Leer más

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  • The Representation of War in German Literature

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