Die bereinigte Moderne (Studien Und Texte Zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur") <49>

"The Sanitized Modern Age"
Heinrich Mann's "Untertan" ("Man of Straw") and political essays in the continuity of German history from the German Empire to the Third Reich
(Text in German)
This is the first detailed socio-historical study of Heinrich Mann's novel "Der Untertan" (published in English under the title "Man of Straw").
Mann's powerful settlement of accounts with the Wilhelmine bourgeoisie occupies a strategic and controversial position in the debates about continuity and change from the German Empire (1871-1918) through the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich.
This study also analyses the symptomatic importance of Mann's literary and political development from the Wilhelmine Empire until the takeover by National Socialism in 1933 and sees this development in the context of the problematical history of German liberalism.