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Article: Secret Sharers: Joseph Conrad's Cultural Reception in Germany.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2008
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Secret Sharers: Yoseph Conrad's Cultural Reception in Germany. By ANTHONY FOTHERGILL. (Cultural History and Literary Imagination, 4) Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang. 2006. 274 pp. 31.50 [pounds sterling]; 48.20 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-03-910271-6.
This volume traces the reception of Joseph Conrad's works in twentieth-century Germany by concentrating upon the institutional conditions under which Conrad was published and read, as well as a number of selected Kulturschaffende who are treated either as important figures in their own right or as representative of their respective historical and/or political contexts. In the first chapter, dealing with the Weimar period, ...