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The First World War As A Clash Of Cultures »

Authors: Fred Bridgham
ISBN-13: 9781571133403, ISBN-10: 1571133402
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Date Published: September 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Essays examining the rift between British and German intellectual and cultural traditions before 1914 and its effect on events.

1	Anglo-German conflict in popular fiction 1870-1914	43
2	Perversion and pestilence : D. H. Lawrence and the Germans	101
3	"Und muss ich von Dante schweigen, zieht Italien gegen uns?" : Carl Sternheim's opposition to the First World War	117
4	The Martians are coming! : war, peace, love, and reflection in H. G. Wells's The war of the worlds and Kurd Lasswitz's Auf zwei Planeten	129
5	Nietzsche as hate-figure in Britain's Great War : "the execrable neech"	147
6	Darwinism and national identity, 1870-1918	167
7	Bernhardi and "the ideas of 1914"	183
8	Peacemaker and warmonger : Alexander Tille and the limits of Anglo-German intercultural transfer	215
9	"In Politik verschieden, in Freundschaft wie immer" : the German Celtic scholar Kuno Meyer and the First World War	231
10	Austrian (and some German) scholars of English and the First World War	245