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The Balkans and Caucasus
The overall character of the Black Sea region has been defined over time in various ways. For specialists in economy and trade, it has represented a region at the crossroads of the trade routes between Europe and Asia; for political scientists and historians, it has been a space of confrontation between the great terrestrial and naval powers; for the scholars attentive to its cultural dimensions, it has been a contact zone, a space of interaction between different peoples, religions and cultures. These attempts at a definition all revolve around an essential (and ambivalent) feature of the Black Sea as a factor of connection, a bridge, and at the same time a border, a dividing line between E...
Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany
Shedding new light on the alternative, emancipatory Germany discovered and written about by progressive women writers during the long nineteenth century, this illuminating study uncovers a country that offered a degree of freedom and intellectual agency unheard of in England. Opening with the striking account of Anna Jameson and her friendship with Ottilie von Goethe, Linda K. Hughes shows how cultural differences spurred ten writers' advocacy of progressive ideas and provided fresh materials for publishing careers. Alongside well-known writers – Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Michael Field, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Vernon Lee – this study sheds light on the lesser-known writers Mary and Anna Mary Howitt, Jessie Fothergill, and the important Anglo-Jewish lesbian writer Amy Levy. Armed with their knowledge of the German language, each of these women championed an extraordinarily productive openness to cultural exchange and, by approaching Germany through a female lens, imported an alternative, 'other' Germany into English letters.
Jacob & Esau
Accommodates both the cosmopolitan narrative of the Jewish diaspora with traditional Jews and their culture.
Modernism in Trieste
When we think about the process of European unification, our conversations inevitably ponder questions of economic cooperation and international politics. Salvatore Pappalardo offers a new and engaging perspective, arguing that the idea of European unity is also the product of a modern literary imagination. This book examines the idea of Europe in the modernist literature of primarily Robert Musil, Italo Svevo, and James Joyce (but also of Theodor Däubler and Srecko Kosovel), all authors who had a deep connection with the port city of Trieste. Writing after World War I, when the contested city joined Italy, these authors resisted the easy nostalgia of the postwar period, radically reimagini...
Europa im Ostblock
Die kommunistischen Machthaber misstrauten der Idee der europäischen Einheit zutiefst. Der westeuropäische Integrationsprozess stellte in ihren Augen einen feindlichen Zusammenschluss imperialistischer Staaten dar, die unter der Führung der USA gegen das sozialistische Friedenslager kämpften. Der Bandspürt in deutsch- und englischsprachigen Beiträgen den Europabildern und Europakonzepten in zahlreichen Ländern östlich des Eisernen Vorhangs nach. Die Autoren untersuchen offizielle Europa-Diskurse und oppositionelle Gegenvorstellungen in den einzelnen Warschauer Pakt-Staaten sowie in Emigrantenkreisen. Die Befunde zeigen, dass im sozialistischen Lager nicht nur kritisch abwehrend, sondern oft auch zustimmend nachgedacht wurde.
Cosmopolitan Outsiders
This book reconstructs the intellectual and social context of several influential proponents of European unity before and after the First World War. Through the lives and works of the well-known promoter of Pan-Europe, Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, and his less well-known predecessor, Alfred Hermann Fried, the book illuminates how transnational peace projects emerged from individuals who found themselves alienated from an increasingly nationalizing political climate within the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the new nation states of the interwar period. The book’s most important intervention concerns the Jewish origins of crucial plans for European unity. It reveals that some of the most influential ideas on European culture and on the peaceful reorganization of an interconnected Europe emerged from Jewish milieus and as a result of Jewish predicaments.
Twigs from the Hall Family Tree
Consists of several individual parts, each with its own title page, indexing and pagination, bound together with an overall title page and introduction by the compiler.
