Germany as model and monster [electronic resource] : allusions in English fiction, 1830s-1930s / Gisela Argyle.
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TextPublication details: Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002.Description: x, 257 p. : illSubject(s): - English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- German literature -- Appreciation -- England
- Bildungsromans -- History and criticism
- English fiction -- German influences
- Germany -- In literature
- Germany -- Foreign public opinion, British
- 823.009/3243 22
- PR868.G36 A84 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-249) and index.
Bildung and the Bildungsroman -- The Bildungsroman retailored: Carlyle and Goethe -- The Bildungsroman assimilated: Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Ernest Maltravers and Alice -- The Bildungsroman as foil: George Meredith's The ordeal of Richard Feverel and The adventures of Harry Richmond -- The "Philistines' nets": George Eliot's Middlemarch -- Regeneration in German keys: George Eliot's Daniel Deronda -- Infidel novels -- Pessimism and its "overcoming": Schopenhauer and Nietzsche -- Prussianized Germany and the second Weimar Germany.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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