Format:
xiv, 423 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
ISBN:
9780300215687
Series Statement:
New directions in narrative history
Content:
The first book about the Albatross Press, a Penguin precursor that entered into an uneasy relationship with the Nazi regime to keep Anglo-American literature alive under fascism. The Albatross Press was, from its beginnings in 1932, a “strange bird”: a cultural outsider to the Third Reich but an economic insider. It was funded by British-Jewish interests. Its director was rumored to work for British intelligence. A precursor to Penguin, it distributed both middlebrow fiction and works by edgier modernist authors such as D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway to eager continental readers. Yet Albatross printed and sold its paperbacks in English from the heart of Hitler’s Reich. In her original and skillfully researched history, Michele K. Troy reveals how the Nazi regime tolerated Albatross—for both economic and propaganda gains—and how Albatross exploited its insider position to keep Anglo-American books alive under fascism. In so doing, Troy exposes the contradictions in Nazi censorship while offering an engaging detective story, a history, a nuanced analysis of men and motives, and a cautionary tale.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Troy, Michele K. Strange bird New Haven, [Connecticut] ; : Yale University Press, 2017 ISBN 9780300228076
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Troy, Michele K. Strange bird New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017 ISBN 9780300228076
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Albatross Verlag
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Geschichte
;
Drittes Reich
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Englisch
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Literatur
;
Kulturpolitik
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Geschichte
;
Drittes Reich
;
Englisch
;
Literatur
;
Albatross Verlag
;
Konflikt
;
Kulturpolitik
Author information:
Troy, Michele K.
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