The Death of the German Cousin: Variations on a Literary Stereotype, 1890-1920Bucknell University Press, 1986 - 242 pages In works by Kipling and Forster, Lawrence and Shaw, Mansfield and Conrad, the Germans were transformed from peaceful country cousins into bloodthirsty Huns. The author's aim is to present what Lukacs calls extreme situations, which radiate a symbolic force far beyond their relatively narrow confines. |
Contents
| 9 | |
Acknowledgments | 13 |
National Character and Race | 17 |
The Death of the German Cousin | 30 |
Joseph Conrads Diabolic and Angelic Germans | 48 |
3 E M Forsters Rainbow Bridge | 61 |
The Loves of English Women and German Men | 77 |
The Mental Slum H G Wells and Rudyard Kipling | 100 |
Wellington House and the Strange Death of a Liberal Professor | 114 |
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