Thanks for this information! Although Joe Fulton cites German works in other
parts of his book and provides translations of some German critics, he does
not cite these sources you mention in his discussion of Friedrich
Schonemann. He does cite two English language sources:
Norwood, Stephen. The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower (2009)
Weinreich, Max. Hitler's Professors (1946, rep 1999)
If I may so bold as to suggest that Schonemann's Nazism does not
automatically invalidate his Twain scholarship, it seems a shame that his
writings on Twain have never been translated into English so far as I know.
They are valid historical documents. Fulton cites his important 1925 book on
Twain, and several other shorter writings. Gathered into a single volume I
think they might find an audience.
Ich kann sprechen deutsch.
Kevin
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-----Original Message-----
From: Holger Kersten
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2017 5:13 PM
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Subject: Revelations in /Mark Twain Under Fire/ -- a footnote
Re: BOOK REVIEW: _Mark Twain Under Fire_, by Joe B. Fulton=20
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 Americ=
an literature have been unaware that Friedrich Sch=C3=B6nemann, an early M=
ark Twain scholar in Germany, had close ties to the Nazi establishment. Th=
is is not the case. Walter Gr=C3=BCnzweig first uncovered the complexities=
of Sch=C3=B6nemann's scholarship and ideology in his 1992 essay "Mass Cul=
ture and Mass Delusion: A Version of America in the Third Reich." He elabo=
rated 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 an=
d cultural scholar Stefan Brandt and historian Philipp Gassert added their=
insights on the issue. More information is available in Walter Gr=C3=BCnz=
weig'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 Studi=
es in Twentieth Century Germany: On the History and Pre-History of the Ger=
man Association for American Studies"). Philipp Gassert's work on the subj=
ect has been mainly published in German (_Amerika im Dritten Reich: Ideolo=
gie, Propaganda und Volksmeinung, 1933-1945_ [1997], and "Vor der DGfA: De=
utsche Amerikaforschung zwischen Erstem Weltkrieg und fr=C3=BCher Bundesre=
publik," _Amerikaforschung in Deutschland_ Ed. Michael Dreyer et al [2004]=
). A focused search in Google books will reveal other publications that di=
scuss Sch=C3=B6nemann's role in the context of early American Studies in G=
ermany.=20
Holger Kersten=20
Magdeburg, Germany
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