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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Kersten, Holger |
| Title, Monographic | Von Hannibal nach Heidelberg: Mark Twain und die Deutschen. Eine Studie zu literarischen und soziokulturellen Quellen eines Deutschlandbildes |
| Place of Publication | Wuerzburg |
| Publisher | Koenigshausen & Neumann |
| Date of Publication | 1993 |
| Extent of Work | iii, 393 |
| Series Editor | Boehm, Rudolf//Gross, Konrad//Jaeger, Dietrich |
| Series Title | Kieler Beitraege zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik. Neue Folge |
| Series Vol. ID | Band 4 |
| ISBN | 3884797522 |
| Abstract | Concentrating on the period up to the publication of A Tramp Abroad, this study delves into the early life of Samuel Clemens and illuminates various factors that may have influenced the American author's attitude toward the Germans and their country. "For anyone familiar with the distribution of the Germans in the United States, it is not surprising that Clemens came into contact with a significant number of Germans in his home state, Missouri. In Hannibal, where he grew up, and in St Louis, where Germans constituted almost a third of the city's population, many of them were among his friends and neighbours. It was unexpected, however, that this almost intimate contact with citizens of German descent continued in the Far West. Virginia City and San Francisco had a considerable German population, and, despite the limited availability of authentic source material about this period of his life, it is possible to demonstrate Clemens's personal contacts without relying on too many inferences. His exposure to things German continued during his residence in the Eastern cities of Buffalo, Elmira, and Hartford." The study also examines Clemens's trip to Germany, and, making use of linguistic and social psychological research, illuminates "the results of its historical and biographical probe. . . [to arrive] at an integration of the sociocultural factors and the individual determinants highlighted" over the course of the work. |
| Notes | Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universitaet Kiel, 1992. Includes an English summary, "English and American Studies in German 1992: Summaries of Theses and Monographs. A Supplement to Anglia. Sonderdruck." Tuebingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, pp. 127-129. Donated by the author. |
| Call Number | MKI PS 1342. G43 K47 1993 |
| MKI Terms | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910/ American literature -- German influences/ German Americans in literature/ Literature, German-American/ Literature, American/ German Americans/ Language, German (US) -- Dialects/ Dialects/ Linguistics/ Sociolinguistics |