Walter Pape 
1870/71 – 1989/90 [PDF ebook] 
German Unifications and the Change of Literary Discourse

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