Papers by Jerry Schuchalter
Hermann Bahr's Der Antisemitismus: Ein Internationales Interview (1894) is a forgotten study that... more Hermann Bahr's Der Antisemitismus: Ein Internationales Interview (1894) is a forgotten study that offers a wide tapestry of insights into a problem that does not seem to go away. What is remarkable about this work is that it does not follow a scientific or scholarly template, i.e., it does not attempt to include a cross section of the population of a given country or a specific target group across many countries, but, instead, interviews the best and the brightest of the European intelligentsia of the time, irrespective of political affiliation or ideology. Writers as diverse as Henrik Ibsen, August Bebel, Theodor Mommsen, and Edmond Picard discuss four central questions: What is the nature of antisemitism? What are its causes? What is a Jew? And finally, what can be done to combat antisemitism? Like many notable authors, Hermann Bahr writes in his autobiography Self-Portrait (Selbstbildnis) that "he had the feeling he was different and actually didn't belong." 1 He muses that he may [85.76.98.43] Project MUSE (2025-04-08 14:32 GMT) Login 'Schofield'
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Yearbook of German-American Studies
Charles Sealsheld's ''Fab le of the Republic" Die politischen Partheien in den Vereinigten Staate... more Charles Sealsheld's ''Fab le of the Republic" Die politischen Partheien in den Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika sind Demokrats, Federals, Torys. Demokrats werden geheiBen, die jedem Burger, der das einundzwanzigste Jahr zuriickgelegt hat, das Wahlrecht zugestehen, ohne Riicksicht, ob er liegendes Vermogen oder nicht besitze. Federals, die das Recht zu wahlen und gewahlt zu werden bios dem Land-und Eigenthumsbesitzer (Freeholder) zuerkennen. Torys werden die Anhanger Englands und die monarchistische Parthei iiberhaupt geheiBen. 12 Of course, in 1827 when Die Vereinigten Staaten was published there was no Tory party in the United States. Nor was there a Tory party after the Constitution had been ratified in 1789. There were Tory sympathies, but this was understandable, since the republican experiment was still new and uncertain, and old solutions, even when not entertained seriously, provided a certain amount of comfort. Hence Sealsfield's interpretation of American political parties mirrored more clearly the realities on the
Yearbook of German-American Studies
Charles Sealsfield and the Frontier Thesis When Frederick Jackson Turner in his posthumous study-... more Charles Sealsfield and the Frontier Thesis When Frederick Jackson Turner in his posthumous study-The United Stales, 1830-1850: The Nations and its Sections (1935)-began to discuss American literature in the Age of Jackson, he noted a name that was doubtless unfamiliar to most of his readers; "Charles Sealsfield, a German writer living in the New Southwest, portrayed the pioneer life of that region in his Cabin books."' Unfortunately we are not informed how Turner profited from Sealsfield's "Cabin books" or if he read more of Sealsfield's works, since he never mentions Sealsfield again-at least not in his published letters.^ Nevertheless the fact that of all the writers who wrote about the Southwest (e.g., Timothy Flint) Turner found it noteworthy to mention Sealsfield perhaps suggests that Turner shared a certain affinity with this German-American writer, who for most Americans had become a forgotten name. At least from our perspective, reviewing the work of both these writers, the affinity seems unmistakable. Of course, as has been amply documented, the frontier thesis has had a long history of precursors. In retrospect it appears as if an entire cultural narrative had been repeatedly searching for legitimacy, until Frederick Jackson Turner came along and gave it a formal scholarly sanction.^ It is well documented that the narratives of the West and westward expansion had played a fundamental role in the discovery and development of the United States and were continually interpreted in fiction and other forms of literature up until the time of Turner's writings.* Otherwise it would be difficult to understand the enthusiastic reception of such programmatic pronouncements as "Tlie true point of view in the history of this nation is not the Atlantic coast, it is the Great West" or "In the crucible of the frontier the immigrants were Americanized, liberated, and fused into a mixed race, English in neither nationality nor characteristics."® Yet it is more as an expression of a grand cultural saga partaking of a multitude of narratives that the frontier thesis seems interesting to us today. Traditionally, when Americans find their national identity being threatened, they retreat not only into the past, into history, but also into space, into the frontier.
Yearbook of German-American Studies
The German conception of America is rooted in crisis. This is clearly documented in Gottfried Dud... more The German conception of America is rooted in crisis. This is clearly documented in Gottfried Duden's B erich t iib er ein e R eise m ch den ivestlichen Staaten N ordam erikas und einen m ehrjdhrigen A u fen thall am M issouri (in den Jahren 1 8 2 4 ,2 5 ,2 6 , und 1827) in B ezu g a u f A u sw an deru ng und Ubervidkerung (1829), which is generally regarded as the most influential tract on immigration to America published in Germany in the nineteenth century.' Already in the preface we encounter the crisis of Europe: Ubervolkerung, Armut, E)ruck, Finanzsysteme, Leibeigenschaft fiir die gemeinen Volksklassen der gewerblichen Staaten, welche die eigentliche gesetzliche Sklaverei unlaugbar in Vielem iiberbietet.D
Lacunaology : studies in intercultural communication
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Chapter 4: “The Liberal Party”
Norman Mailer and the Modernist Turn
Chapter 6: “The Woman Question”
Norman Mailer and the Modernist Turn
Chapter 9: “The Last Serious Novelist”
Norman Mailer and the Modernist Turn
Chapter 7: “The Non-Jewish Jew”
Norman Mailer and the Modernist Turn
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