Re: BOOK REVIEW: _Mark Twain Under Fire_, by Joe B. Fulton 

Readers of Joe Fulton's _Twain Under Fire_ and Kevin Mac Donnell's  review of the book might come under the impression that German scholars  of American literature have been unaware that Friedrich Schönemann, an  early Mark Twain scholar in Germany, had close ties to the Nazi  establishment. This is not the case. Walter Grünzweig first uncovered  the complexities of Schönemann's scholarship and ideology in his 1992  essay "Mass Culture and Mass Delusion: A Version of America in the Third  Reich." He elaborated on it in a paper delivered at the 2003 Annual  Meeting of the German Association for American Studies in Munich. At the  same event, literary and cultural scholar Stefan Brandt and historian  Philipp Gassert added their insights on the issue. More information is  available in Walter Grünzweig's "Mass Culture and Mass Delusion: A  Version of America in the Third Reich" (_North Dakota Quaterly_ 60/1992,  130-146). Summaries of the papers delivered at the 2003 GAAS convention  can be found at    ("American Studies in Twentieth Century Germany: On the History and  Pre-History of the German Association for American Studies"). Philipp  Gassert's work on the subject has been mainly published in German  (_Amerika im Dritten Reich: Ideologie, Propaganda und Volksmeinung,  1933-1945_ [1997], and "Vor der DGfA: Deutsche Amerikaforschung zwischen  Erstem Weltkrieg und früher Bundesrepublik," _Amerikaforschung in  Deutschland_ Ed. Michael Dreyer et al [2004]). A focused search in  Google books will reveal other publications that discuss Schönemann's  role in the context of early American Studies in Germany. 

Holger Kersten 
Magdeburg, Germany



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