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Peter Edgerly Firchow Books

    December 16, 1937 – October 18, 2008

    Peter Edgerly Firchow was an American literary scholar and educator whose work extensively explored the intricate connections between British and German literature during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A leading scholar of Aldous Huxley, Firchow delved into the cross-cultural influences that shaped literary production and thought. His scholarship illuminated the profound dialogues between these two significant literary traditions.

    The perennial satirist
    Strange Meetings: Anglo-German Literary Encounters from 1910 to 1960
    Reluctant modernists

    • Reluctant modernists

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
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      A Collection of Essays edited by Evelyn S. Firchow and Bernfried Nugel with an introduction by Jerome Meckier and a personal memoir by Janice Rossen. Presented on the occasion of his 65th Birthday.This collection of essays is about modernist writers who believe that it is just as important to look backward as it is to look forward. Indeed, for most, looking backward is more important because it is only through the past that one can understand one's proper place in the present and in the future. That is why Huxley's Brave New World rejects the past in the future--and by implication in the present--where it makes its satire so penetrating. Modernism, in other words, means for these writers not a radical break with the past, but a continuing search for what still connects them (and us) vitally with it.

      Reluctant modernists

    • Strange Meetings: Anglo-German Literary Encounters from 1910 to 1960

      • 283 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Exploring the evolution of British perceptions of Germany from 1910 to 1960, this book examines the works of prominent modern writers like Eliot and Auden. It delves into key moments that shaped the complex and often fraught relationship between Britain and Germany during this period, revealing how literature reflected and influenced national attitudes and misconceptions. Through critical analysis, it sheds light on the cultural and historical contexts that informed these writers' perspectives.

      Strange Meetings: Anglo-German Literary Encounters from 1910 to 1960

    • The perennial satirist

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      This collection of essays primarily honours Bernfried Nugel the teacher and scholar, but it also pays homage to Bernfried Nugel the indefatigable worker in the cause of Aldous Huxley studies. It is due to this latter manifestation that many of the contributors to this volume know each other personally, having met at one or more of the international conferences that Professor Nugel organized and either hosted or co-hosted. At Munster, his home university, he has also been instrumental in establishing and heading a center for admirers of Huxley's work, along with a fine library of Huxley materials, including manuscripts and numerous first editions. (Series: "Human Potentialities". Studien zu Aldous Huxley & zeitgenossischer Kultur/Studies in Aldous Huxley & Contemporary Culture - Vol. 7)

      The perennial satirist