England's backyard : Vormärz travel writers on the Irish question
- Most Germans went first to Great Britain to witness and describe what in comparison to the conditions in the German petty principalities was very progressive in its industrial advancement, free trade, extraordinary wealth-creation, very advanced civil rights and parliamentary democracy and to hold it up as a model to the Germans. Some then added on a trip to Ireland, which after all was a part of the political entity "The United Kingdom", to see, as they thought, more of the same. Instead they came face to face with the most abject poverty any of them had ever experienced, including the professional ethnographer Johann Georg Kohl, who had been all over Europe and as far as Siberia. For the Vormärz authors this raised questions as to why "John Bull's other island", as George Bernhard Shaw would much later call Ireland, was so utterly neglected
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| Author: | Eoin Bourke |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-523474 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-89528-728-2 |
| Parent Title (German): | Jahrbuch / FVF, Forum Vormärz Forschung |
| Publisher: | Aisthesis Verlag |
| Place of publication: | Bielefeld |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2009 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Contributing Corporation: | Forum Vormärz Forschung |
| Release Date: | 2020/08/06 |
| GND Keyword: | Irland <Motiv>; Irische Frage <Motiv>; Reiseliteratur; Vormärz |
| Volume: | 14.2008 |
| Page Number: | 11 |
| First Page: | 218 |
| Last Page: | 228 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 469749008 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 83 Deutsche und verwandte Literaturen / 830 Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur |
| Sammlungen: | Germanistik / GiNDok |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Aisthesis Verlag | |
| BDSL-Klassifikation: | 15.00.00 19. Jahrhundert / BDSL-Klassifikation: 15.00.00 19. Jahrhundert > 15.11.00 Vormärz und Revolution 1848 |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | Jahrbuch / FVF, Forum Vormärz Forschung / Jahrbuch / FVF, Forum Vormärz Forschung - 14.2008 |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-523231 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
