Nonconformist Writing in Nazi Germany - The Literature of Inner Emigration

An innovative, critical, historically informed, yet accessible reassessment of writers who remained in Nazi Germany and Austria yet expressed nonconformity - even dissent - through their fiction.

List of contents

Introduction
Nazi Germany and Literary Nonconformism
The Writers of the Inner Emigration and Their Approaches
Werner Bergengruen: "The Führer Novel"?
Stefan Andres: The Christian Humanist Response to Tyranny
Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen: The Snobbish Dissenter and His Tale of Mass Insanity
Gertrud von le Fort: Religious Wars and the Nazi Present
Reinhold Schneider: Indios, Jews, and Persecution
Ernst Jünger: Spiritual Opposition as Resistance?
Ernst Wiechert, the Principled Conservative: From Public Dissent to the "Simple Life"
Erika Mitterer: Witch Hunts and the Power of Evil
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the author

John Klapper

Summary

An innovative, critical, historically informed, yet accessible reassessment of writers who remained in Nazi Germany and Austria yet expressed nonconformity - even dissent - through their fiction.

Product details

• Authors: John Klapper
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781640140547
• ISBN: 978-1-64014-054-7
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 617 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture; Studies in German Literature L; Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture; Studies in German Literature L
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945)