German through English Eyes
Nicola McLelland's AHRC-funded project German Through English Eyes (monograph to appear in 2014, published by Harrassowitz) investigates the changes in how the German language and its culture(s) have been represented to British learners through textbooks of German since 1600. For example, Dr McLelland examines by what steps the representation of German and its speakers in language textbooks moved from hailing our fellow-Germanic imperialists in the 19th century, to sympathetic chapters on the Hitler Youth and the SS in 1930s textbooks, to the later 20th century with programmatic titles that deliberately make a break with the past, like Unsere Freunde 'Our Friends' and Deutschland hier und jetzt 'Germany here and now'. The book will contribute to the history of foreign language education, to the social history of Anglo-German relations, and to the examination of constructions and representations of the self and other, and of the German-speaking nation(s) and states, and their past (cultural studies, cultures of memory).
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