"Dann weg 'mit's Milletär' und wieder ein civiler Civilist": Theodor Fontane and the Wars of German Unification

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Cultural Change and Cultural Memory: The Principle of Hope in the Times of German Unifications 1
4. History, Education, Language, and National Identity
5. National History and National Identity in the New Germany 25
6. The Franco-Prussian War and Unification in German History Schoolbooks 37
7. Language and the Social Foundations of Radical Nationalism in the Wilhelmine Era 61
8. "Dann weg 'mit's Milletär' und wieder ein civiler Civilist": Theodor Fontane and the Wars of German Unification 79
9. Literature, Aesthetics, and Literary Market after 1870/71
10. "Hurra, Germania — mir graut vor dir": Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Freiligrath, Herwegh, and the German Unification of 1870/71 107
11. Friedrich Spielhagen - Critic of Bismarck's Empire 135
12. "Gibt es nicht Völker, in denen vergessen zu werden eine Ehre ist?": Raabe and German Unification 144
13. Literary Changes Compared - 1870/71 and 1990
14. Imagining the German Capital: Berlin Writers on the Two Unification Eras 171
15. Telling German History: Forms and Functions of the Historical Narrative Against the Background of the National Unifications 195
16. 1990: The Priciple of Hope or: Nailed to the Cross of the Past?
17. Another Piece of the Past 233
18. Intellectuals, Unification, and Political Change 1990: The Case of Christa Wolf 251
19. "Wir hausen im Prenzlauer Berg": On the Very Last Generation of GDR Poets 278
20. The End of the Dream of the "Other Germany": The "German Question" in West German Letters 302
21. Bibliography 321
22. Notes on Contributors 363
23. Index 367