Angermion-Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers-Jahrbuch fuer Britisch-Deutsche Kulturbeziehungen最新文献

{"title":"Prince Albert and Anglo-German Connections in 19th-Century Music","authors":"N. Meyn","doi":"10.1515/anger-2020-0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/anger-2020-0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40371,"journal":{"name":"Angermion-Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers-Jahrbuch fuer Britisch-Deutsche Kulturbeziehungen","volume":"13 1","pages":"197 - 212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/anger-2020-0013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47327869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"George Eliot’s Travels in Germany","authors":"J. Rignall","doi":"10.1515/anger-2020-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/anger-2020-0008","url":null,"abstract":"Cross himself, prior to their marriage, had had the general impression that her health was always poor, and that she was almost constantly ailing; so for someone as notoriously plagued by headaches, toothache and general indisposition as George Eliot was, this transformation was remarkable. On that journey it was he, of course, who was taken ill with some mental crisis that caused him to throw himself into the Grand Canal in Venice in June 1880. Significantly, the countries she took him to in order to promote his recovery were first Austria (Innsbruck) and then Germany, where it was in Wildbad in the Schwarzwald that he was finally brought back to health and mental balance. From Wildbad she was able to report on 13 July that: “J. is quite well again, but is inclined to linger in the sweet air of the Schwarzwald, which comes to one on gently-stirred wings, laden with the scent of the pine forests.”2 German spas had, of course, been a favourite destination of George Eliot and G. H. Lewes in their life together, and it is interesting to note that the first two mentions of Germany in her letters, dating from the 1840s before she had set foot in Germany, were connected to health and well-being. After her close friend Sarah Hennell visited Germany in 1844, George Eliot wrote to her saying: “I hear that you are in perfect health, and that is the most satisfactory of all results of the trip to Germany.”3 And when a younger Coventry friend, John Sibree, told her in 1848 of his plan to go to Germany, she replied that “I like the notion of your going to Germany as good in every way, for yourself, body and mind, and for all others.”4 Before she went there herself Germany, then, seems to","PeriodicalId":40371,"journal":{"name":"Angermion-Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers-Jahrbuch fuer Britisch-Deutsche Kulturbeziehungen","volume":"13 1","pages":"129 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/anger-2020-0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48032579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Defamation to Adoration: The Reception of Kraftwerk in the British Music Press, 1974–1981","authors":"U. Schütte","doi":"10.1515/ANGER-2020-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ANGER-2020-0001","url":null,"abstract":"Kraftwerk, it can be claimed, is the German pop music group that commands the greatest admiration on the British Isles. Their 2017 UK tour comprised twelve dates that sold out almost immediately. The press echo was overwhelmingly positive, for example The Independent heading their review of the Royal Albert Hall concert with the line: “Reconfiguring what a pop gig can be – and how it can look”.1 Reviewer Shaun Curran opens his piece with affirming “the reverence with which ground-breaking German electronic group Kraftwerk are held today” in the UK, adding “Kraftwerk are arguably, perhaps even more than The Beatles, the most influential band of all time”.2 Similarly, The Guardian review praised the pioneering role of Kraftwerk: They were former avant-rockers from Düsseldorf whose evolving visions seeded modern music, from disco to hip-hop to techno. Anyone using a vocoder, or wearing a robot helmet or a mouse head, is their offspring.”3 But reviewer Kitty Empire stresses another important aspect of the concert: “The sight and sound of Kraftwerk’s multilingual, pan-European mindset is particularly bittersweet tonight, with Brexit talks now under way.”4 Her remark reminded readers that Kraftwerk’s summer dates coincided with the first anniversary of the Brexit referendum. The leading online music magazine The Quietus even ran a reflective piece entitled “Europe, Endless? On Watching Kraftwerk Live, A Year After Brexit” by the music journalist Luke Turner. Bemoaning the outcome of the referendum, the article initially asks the question: “Do we Brits no longer deserve their European futurism?”, while Turner, prompted by seeing the London concert, observes:","PeriodicalId":40371,"journal":{"name":"Angermion-Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers-Jahrbuch fuer Britisch-Deutsche Kulturbeziehungen","volume":"13 1","pages":"1 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/ANGER-2020-0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45403488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Raubstaat England: The Long Reach of Colonial Resentment","authors":"Catherine Mason","doi":"10.1515/anger-2019-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/anger-2019-0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40371,"journal":{"name":"Angermion-Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers-Jahrbuch fuer Britisch-Deutsche Kulturbeziehungen","volume":"12 1","pages":"67 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/anger-2019-0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48075728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rhetorical Naturalisation in the History of Philology: August Schleicher, Friedrich Max Müller and Their Critics","authors":"Angus Nicholls","doi":"10.1515/anger-2019-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/anger-2019-0005","url":null,"abstract":"An intellectual history of the humanities can only fulfil its true critical purpose if, in examining debates from the past, it can say something important about the present. This essay examines an episode in the history of nineteenth-century philology – in German: Sprachwissenschaft, or what Friedrich Max Müller termed ‘The Science of Language’ – an episode that appeared to reach its resolution towards the end of that century, but which still contains implications that are of relevance today. The decisive issue in this debate is whether philology should be regarded as a natural science that proceeds according to empirically verifiable laws. Two of the key actors in this debate – August Schleicher (1821–1861) in Germany and Friedrich Max Müller (1823–1900) in Britain – sought to mobilise their own versions of Darwinian natural selection to claim that something like a ‘Science of Language’ can be formulated in a way analogous to evolutionary biology.1","PeriodicalId":40371,"journal":{"name":"Angermion-Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers-Jahrbuch fuer Britisch-Deutsche Kulturbeziehungen","volume":"12 1","pages":"114 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/anger-2019-0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46597337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Anglo-German Attitudes: Mary, Countess von Bothmer (1833–1901)","authors":"F. Gordon","doi":"10.1515/anger-2019-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/anger-2019-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Mary Young, Countess von Bothmer (1833–1901), an almost completely forgotten English novelist, essayist and political writer, offers an intriguing glimpse of nineteenth-century Anglo-German attitudes. She was a rare but not unique instance of an English woman writer engaging with political ideas and attempting to develop them in fiction, pamphlets and memoirs. While certainly lacking the stature, scholarship or cultural sweep of a George Eliot, she nevertheless displays a cosmopolitan range, commenting on contemporary cultural and political tensions in Europe. An almost exact contemporary of Queen Victoria (1837–1901) and living during a period of close royal links between Britain and Germany, Bothmer tapped into a growing British interest in German life and manners.1 Fully aware of British unease over the rise of Prussia, and herself critical of its militaristic ethos, she nevertheless argued for an Anglo-German entente to maintain and consolidate the European balance of power.2 Her 1876 popular memoir, German Home Life (1876), as well as describing German domestic arrangements, revealed a strong feminist perspective, developed further in her novels. Running alongside her feminism, were Bothmer’s attachment to rigid class hierarchies coupled with the explicit Antisemitism of her essay, “The Jews in Germany” (1881)3. Conversely, her last novel, published in 1883, based on the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia in 1881, is passionately Philo-Semitic. Overall, the Pan-European reach of her writings, based, I will argue, on lived experience and evidence of wide reading in history, politics and literature suggest an unusual and combative intelligence. Her personal history and literary career though idiosyncratic in one sense, also can be construed as typical, not exceptional, of her class and gender. If a minor literary voice, she reveals intriguing links and tensions in Anglo-German relations in the last decades of the nineteenth century.","PeriodicalId":40371,"journal":{"name":"Angermion-Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers-Jahrbuch fuer Britisch-Deutsche Kulturbeziehungen","volume":"12 1","pages":"41 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/anger-2019-0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48419115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A History of “Uninformed Sympathy” or Love and Hate in Brexit Times? Comparing Anglo-German and Irish-German Relations","authors":"Gisela Holfter","doi":"10.1515/anger-2019-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/anger-2019-0008","url":null,"abstract":"I recall someone saying a few years ago that we do not really need to pay attention to bilateral relations within the EU anymore. Diplomatic relations between any two countries would be obsolete before long, the focus would be only on Brussels and inner EU relations.1 We certainly know now that this is far from true – and even assuming the most benign developments of the EU, I doubt whether it would have ever been the case. Binational relations did and do matter very much; they are fluid and shaped by a plethora of perceptions, historical links, changing allegiances and agendas, and are influenced above all by self-interest. This article focuses on Anglo-German relations and Irish-German relations. Obviously one article cannot provide a complete picture of the development and current state of either Anglo-German or Irish-German relations, and certainly not both, but some interesting aspects may emerge from this novel double perspective, and when comparing, I hope to be able to draw out some particular characteristics of each, while also showing that the relationships were, at least at times, intimately interlinked. A particular relationship with Great Britain could influence the German perspective on Ireland, and likewise, a particular Irish-German connection could impact the way Great Britain was viewed. For almost one thousand years, the German view of Ireland was mediated through England. In the vast majority of encounters, whoever came to Ireland went first to England, and almost everyone who wrote about Ireland used England as a point of comparison. John Hennig, who can be described as the father of Irish-German Studies, viewed","PeriodicalId":40371,"journal":{"name":"Angermion-Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers-Jahrbuch fuer Britisch-Deutsche Kulturbeziehungen","volume":"12 1","pages":"181 - 202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/anger-2019-0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45225681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Swords Reluctant: Max Pemberton’s roman-à-clef about the Early-Twentieth- Century Peace Movement (1912)","authors":"Ulrich Tiedau","doi":"10.1515/anger-2019-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/anger-2019-0006","url":null,"abstract":"One of the first organisations campaigning for a united Europe, grown out of concern about the early-twentieth-century armaments race between Imperial Germany and Britain in particular, came from the UK. In 1906, Sir Max Waechter (1836–1924), an Anglo-German industrialist who had made a fortune as a shipbroker and sole British agent of the Nobel Brothers’ petroleum business in Russia, had presented a manifesto to King Edward VII, in which he suggested a Federation of European states as a means to prevent war and advance prosperity across the continent. Touring the capitals of Europe between 1907 and 1913 he managed to discuss his scheme, under the title European Unity League, with almost all ruling heads of state at the time and secure endorsing statements by many of them.1 His campaign, for which he usually travelled on the former Austrian archducal steamyacht S. Y. Rovenska, on board of which he hosted numerous monarchs, politicians and diplomats, was also regularly reported in the British and European press.2 In May 1909 he financed and co-organised one of the first large manifestations of the European movement, the international Congress for European Federation,3 in the presence of William Thomas Stead and Jacques","PeriodicalId":40371,"journal":{"name":"Angermion-Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers-Jahrbuch fuer Britisch-Deutsche Kulturbeziehungen","volume":"12 1","pages":"115 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/anger-2019-0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48357908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transnational Crisis Management: Glapthorne’s Albertvs Wallenstein and Gryphius’s Carolus Stuardus","authors":"F. Krobb","doi":"10.1515/anger-2019-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/anger-2019-0001","url":null,"abstract":"Just over 400 years ago, on 23 May 1618, the Defenestration of Prague triggered the conflict that later became known as the Thirty Years War. The ensuing armed conflict that lasted from 1618 to 1648 saw confessionalism and power politics collide, resulting in the largest bloodshed, and the longest, most protracted and messy conflict ever witnessed on European soil. Henry Glapthorne’s drama The Tragedy of Albertvs Wallenstein (1639) dramatizes a key event from this conflict, the murder of the Imperial commander-in-chief. Andreas Gryphius’ Ermordete Majestät oder Carolus Stuardus (1657) dramatizes a related event. The execution of Charles I can also be located in the context of confessionalism and its repercussions for the power dynamics between and within nations – civic, religious and constitutional crises, unrest and the collapse of inherited concepts and practices of order and political organization. Here, legacies pertaining to the Reformation in Britain, the union of the English and Scottish crowns, and to constitutional issues between Monarch and Parliament erupted in Civil War and the ruler’s accusation of high treason. While the first printed versions of the two pieces appeared some years after the respective events, the assassination of Wallenstein on 25 February 1634 and the execution of Charles I on 30 January 1649, we possess evidence that the authors started work on their scripts in the immediate aftermath. Glapthorne’s piece was most probably performed on the stage of London’s Globe Theatre some months after the event,1 and Gryphius’s manuscript was dedicated to a high benefactor in March 1650, i.e. the year after the","PeriodicalId":40371,"journal":{"name":"Angermion-Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers-Jahrbuch fuer Britisch-Deutsche Kulturbeziehungen","volume":"12 1","pages":"1 - 16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/anger-2019-0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43330241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tracing National Traditions Transnationally: A.W. Schlegel, Walter Scott, and Two Takes on Theatre History","authors":"M. Wood","doi":"10.1515/anger-2019-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/anger-2019-0002","url":null,"abstract":"In 1819, Walter Scott’s “Essay on the Drama” appeared in the ongoing supplement to the fourth, fifth, and sixth editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1815– 24). The “Essay on the Drama” is a wide-ranging historical survey of drama and performance in Europe from the days before Aeschylus in ancient Greece to the present state of play on the British stage. Between these two poles, Scott considers theatre in Rome and Byzantium, before stopping in at medieval mystery plays, French neoclassicism, Italian opera, Spanish tragedy, the English renaissance, and drama from the Restoration through the Augustan Age. Running to a total of 178 pages in the 1834–36 edition of Scott’s Miscellaneous Prose Works,1 the “Essay on the Drama” represents Scott’s most significant, lengthy, and wideranging piece of dramatic criticism – with the obvious exception of his 453-page Life of Dryden from 1808, which, however, also devotes itself to other aspects of Dryden’s biography beyond his dramatic works. In an essay about the development of dramatic genres and performance styles across times, cultures, and nations, Scott’s account is international and, at times, he nods towards the benefits of intercultural cross-fertilisation in developing national dramatic traditions: drama, for Scott, does not develop in isolation, but moves between cultures, changing as it does so. His own account of the role of German drama in British theatrical renewal is a case in point. When he looks back on the state of the British stage in the 1790s, he maintains in hindsight, that","PeriodicalId":40371,"journal":{"name":"Angermion-Yearbook for Anglo-German Literary Criticism Intellectual History and Cultural Transfers-Jahrbuch fuer Britisch-Deutsche Kulturbeziehungen","volume":"12 1","pages":"17 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/anger-2019-0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44326128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}