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Richard Byrn (editor)

Cousins at One Remove.

ANGLO-GERMAN STUDIES 2

Northern Universities Press. Leeds, 1998.
ISBN 0 901286 98 2.

Contents

PREFACE

1 SCHILLER, KLEIST, WAGNER – A GREAT BRITISH TRADITION?
Fred Bridgham

2 A ROMANTIC IN RATZEBURG: COLERIDGE’S DEBT TO NORTH GERMAN ‘PROVINZ’
Ingo Cornils

3 WILLIAM POEL’S “WALLENSTEIN”-MOMENT
Joyce Crick

4 ‘OUR WRETCHED GERMAN COUSINS’: A.R. ORAGE AND GERMANY
Diane Milburn

5 MEPHISTO IN MODERN ENGLISH GUISE
Richard Byrn

6 SHAKESPEARE INTO CELAN: SONNETS 1, 105 AND 107
Raymond Hargreaves

7 RE-WRITING, RE-CYCLING: FRIEDRICH DÜRRENMATT AND “THE TRAGEDY OF KING JOHN”
Sydney G. Donald

8 JOSEPHINE BUTLER’S CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE DOUBLE MORAL STANDARD, AND ITS REPERCUSSIONS IN GERMANY
Ingrid Sharp

9 THREE LETTERS TO JETHRO BITHELL, FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE HELD IN THE BROTHERTON LIBRARY BITHELL COLLECTION:
from Alfred Mombert, 6.9.1909, edited by Susan Bollinger
from Franz Werfel, 4.4.1940, edited by John Hogg
from Hans Carossa, 9.5.1949, edited by Claire Harder

THE CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Volume 1 was published in 1992 by the Leeds Philosophical & Literary Society as:

ANGLO-GERMAN STUDIES
edited by R. F. M. BYRN and K. G. KNIGHT

Contents

Preface

Introduction

I. TRANSLATION AND RECEPTION

Chapter 1 Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko in Germany K. G. KNIGHT

Chapter 2 The Spectator and Der Patriot K. G. KNIGHT and H. PEITSCH

Chapter 3 Die Rolle der Zeitschriften bei der Einführung englischer Literatur in Deutschland im 18. Jahrhundert H. PEITSCH

II. AFFINITIES AND INFLUENCES

Chapter 4 Narrative technique and reader manipulation in Hoffmann’s Elixiere and Hogg’s Confessions U. HORSTMANN-GUTHRIE

Chapter 5 Byron’s influence on Annette von Droste-Hülshoff’s ‘Lebt Wohl’ J. D. GUTHRIE

Chapter 6 Fontane’s translation of ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ H. E. CHAMBERS

Chapter 7 Nietzsche and Sterne R. HARGREAVES

III. THE ESSAY AND THE LANGUAGE

Chapter 8 Englishness in essays of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Rudolf Borchardt and Rudolf Kassner M. LAUSTER

Chapter 9 ‘ugly short infantry of the mind – dreckige infanterie des geistes’: Alfred Andersch and the English language R. F. M. BYRN

Index

 

From the reviews:

‘In its concentration on mainstream authors, Anglo-German Studies substantially enhances an already rich body of critical work in Anglo-German literary relations.’ – The Modern Language Review.

‘This volume offers a series of stimulating, sometimes amusing, sometimes alarming insights into Anglo-German literary relations. All but one are concerned with the translation, reception, and interpretation of English literary culture in Germany ... Let us hope that the Leeds German Department will perhaps one day produce a volume with an emphasis complementary to that of the present one.’ – Notes and Queries.

‘Its interest resides in the strength of the individual contributions.’ – Revue de littérature comparée.