A Baedeker of Decadence
A Baedeker of Decadence

Author: George C. Schoolfield

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0300047142

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During the final decades of the nineteenth century, a common mind-set emerged among many intellectuals--"la decadence." Many novels and novellas of the period were populated with protagonists who were fragile, refined, self-absorbed, and preoccupied with a trivially exquisite aesthetic. A Baedeker of Decadence presents thirty-two international works of literary decadence written between 1884 and 1927. George C. Schoolfield, a world authority on the decadent novel, offers an entertaining and wide-ranging commentary on this highly significant literary and cultural phenomenon. Schoolfield tracks down the symptoms of decadence in narrative works written in more than a dozen languages, providing synopses and passages in English translation to give a sense of each author's style and tone. Schoolfield throws new light on the close intellectual kinship of authors from August Strindberg to Bram Stoker to Thomas Mann, and on the ingredients, themes, motifs, and preconceptions that characterized decadent literature.

Baedeker Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Baedeker Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Publisher: Baedeker Guides

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13: 9780028613611

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From the historic streets of London to the spires of Oxford, from Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-on-Avon to the Lake District of the Romantic poets, Baedeker Great Britain covers all the cathedrals and castles, the monuments and historic homes in an easy-to-use format.

German-speaking Exiles in Ireland 1933-1945
German-speaking Exiles in Ireland 1933-1945

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-08-01

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9401203229

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German-speaking Exiles in Ireland 1933-1945 is a pioneering study of the impact the German-speaking exiles of the Hitler years had on Ireland as the first large group of immigrants in the country in the twentieth century. It therefore adds an important yet hitherto virtually unknown Irish dimension to international exile studies. After providing an overview of the topic and an analysis of current developments in exile studies the volume devotes two chapters to Jewish refugees and another to the considerable number of Austrian exiles, investigates the relationship between Irish government policy and public opinion, and explores the problems of identity faced by so many in exile. It then focuses on some eminent refugees - Erwin Schrödinger, Ludwig Bieler, Robert Weil, Ernst Scheyer, and Hans Sachs - before concluding with personal accounts by Ruth Braunizer (the daughter of Erwin Schrödinger, excerpts from whose diaries are published here for the first time), Monica Schefold (the daughter of John Hennig), and Eva Gross. The fourteen contributors to the volume are Wolfgang Benz, Ruth Braunizer, John Cooke, Horst Dickel, Eva Gross, Gisela Holfter, Dermot Keogh, Wolfgang Muchitsch, Siobhán O'Connor, Hermann Rasche, Monica Schefold, Birte Schulz, Raphael V. Siev, and Colin Walker.

Baedekeriana
Baedekeriana

Author: Michael Wild

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0956528902

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By Michael Wild, the Baedeker historian, this is an anthology of articles about, and extracts from, Baedeker guidebooks of the past. There is much to amuse and enlighten the reader, who is taken to Troy, Poland under German occupation, the Berlin to Baghdad railway, India and many other fascinating places which one might otherwise never see.

Publisher and Bookseller
Publisher and Bookseller

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Publisher:

Published: 1865

Total Pages: 1200

ISBN-13:

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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.