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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Cultural Change and Cultural Memory: The Principle of Hope in the Times of German Unifications -- History, Education, Language, and National Identity -- National History and National Identity in the New Germany -- The Franco-Prussian War and Unification in German History Schoolbooks -- Language and the Social Foundations of Radical Nationalism in the Wilhelmine Era -- "Dann weg 'mit's Milletär' und wieder ein civiler Civilist": Theodor Fontane and the Wars of German Unification -- Literature, Aesthetics, and Literary Market after 1870/71 -- "Hurra, Germania - mir graut vor dir": Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Freiligrath, Herwegh, and the German Unification of 1870/71 -- Friedrich Spielhagen - Critic of Bismarck's Empire -- "Gibt es nicht Völker, in denen vergessen zu werden eine Ehre ist?": Raabe and German Unification -- Literary Changes Compared - 1870/71 and 1990 -- Imagining the German Capital: Berlin Writers on the Two Unification Eras -- Telling German History: Forms and Functions of the Historical Narrative Against the Background of the National Unifications -- 1990: The Priciple of Hope or: Nailed to the Cross of the Past? -- Another Piece of the Past -- Intellectuals, Unification, and Political Change 1990: The Case of Christa Wolf -- "Wir hausen im Prenzlauer Berg": On the Very Last Generation of GDR Poets -- The End of the Dream of the "Other Germany": The "German Question" in West German Letters -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
About the author
Walter Pape ist seit 1988 Professor für Neuere deutsche Literatur an der Universität zu Köln und forscht und publiziert seit vielen Jahren zu Ringelnatz.
