Victorians and Germany

The Author: John R. Davis is Reader in Modern European History and Director of Graduate Studies at Kingston University, Surrey, England. His research has ranged widely over modern British and modern German history, Anglo-German and international relations. His other books include Britain and the German Zollverein, The Great Exhibition, and Richard Cobden’s German Diaries.

«Er [Der Autor] hat...eine Studie vorgelegt, welche sich als vorbildlich bezeichnen lässt, weil sie gleichermaßen Selektionsprozesse, Vermittlungsprozesse und Rezeptionsprozesse analysiert.» (Burkhart Lauterbach, Bayerisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde)«It has long been recognised that British interest in Germany in the nineteenth century was substantial and significant, and many detailed studies have appeared on aspects of it. It is striking, however, that a very few books have attempted to give general introductory account of it for the non-expert reader. This is the gap that John R. Davis has sought to fill in this full and useful account.» (Jonathan Parry, Sehepunkte)

• Contents: Preparing the Ground – The Land of Ideas and Literature – Religion and Germany – Germany and the Victorian Sense of History – Art, Aesthetics and Music – Reform, Education and the German Model – Germany and the Victorian Traveller – Victorians and the German Nation State.