Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Heinrich Mann and the Struggle for Democracy
- 2 Hermann Hesse and the Weimar Republic
- 3 In Defense of Reason and Justice: Lion Feuchtwanger's Historical Novels of the Weimar Republic
- 4 The Case of Jakob Wassermann: Social, Legal, and Personal Crises in the Weimar Republic
- 5 Signs of the Times: Joseph Roth's Weimar Journalism
- 6 Ernst Jünger, the New Nationalists, and the Memory of the First World War
- 7 Innocent Killing: Erich Maria Remarque and the Weimar Anti-War Novels
- 8 In “A Far-Off Land”: B. Traven
- 9 Weimar's Forgotten Cassandra: The Writings of Gabriele Tergit in the Weimar Republic
- 10 Radical Realism and Historical Fantasy: Alfred Döblin
- 11 Vicki Baum: “A First-Rate Second-Rate Writer”?
- 12 Hans Fallada's Literary Breakthrough: Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben and Kleiner Mann — was nun?
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Heinrich Mann and the Struggle for Democracy
- 2 Hermann Hesse and the Weimar Republic
- 3 In Defense of Reason and Justice: Lion Feuchtwanger's Historical Novels of the Weimar Republic
- 4 The Case of Jakob Wassermann: Social, Legal, and Personal Crises in the Weimar Republic
- 5 Signs of the Times: Joseph Roth's Weimar Journalism
- 6 Ernst Jünger, the New Nationalists, and the Memory of the First World War
- 7 Innocent Killing: Erich Maria Remarque and the Weimar Anti-War Novels
- 8 In “A Far-Off Land”: B. Traven
- 9 Weimar's Forgotten Cassandra: The Writings of Gabriele Tergit in the Weimar Republic
- 10 Radical Realism and Historical Fantasy: Alfred Döblin
- 11 Vicki Baum: “A First-Rate Second-Rate Writer”?
- 12 Hans Fallada's Literary Breakthrough: Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben and Kleiner Mann — was nun?
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
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- German Novelists of the Weimar RepublicIntersections of Literature and Politics, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2006