Thomas Mann's War : Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters /

Thomas Mann's War : Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters /

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"During the period of his American exile in the 1930s and 1940s, the German author Thomas Mann became one of the most prominent anti-fascists in the United States, and in so doing forever transformed our understanding of what a modern writer is and should be doing"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boes, Tobias, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mann, Thomas, > 1875-1955 > Political activity.
World War, 1939-1945 > Public opinion.
World War, 1939-1945 > Literature and the war.
Politics and literature > Germany > History > 20th century.
Authors, Exiled > Political activity > United States.
Authors, German > 20th century > Political and social views.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the German envoy to America
  • The teacher of Germany
  • The greatest living man of letters
  • Interlude I: Joseph in Egypt
  • The first citizen of the international republic of letters
  • Interlude II: Lotte in Weimar
  • Hitler's most intimate enemy
  • Interlude III: the tables of the law
  • A blooming flower
  • Interlude IV: Joseph the provider
  • The loyal American subject
  • Interlude V: Doctor Faustus
  • The isolated world citizen.

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