TY - BOOK AU - Boes,Tobias ED - Project Muse. TI - Thomas Mann's War : : Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters / SN - 9781501745010 AV - PT2625.A44 Z54256 2019 U1 - 833/.912 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Mann, Thomas, KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Public opinion KW - Literature and the war KW - Politics and literature KW - Germany KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Authors, Exiled KW - Political activity KW - United States KW - Authors, German KW - Political and social views KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: the German envoy to America -- The teacher of Germany -- The greatest living man of letters -- Interlude I: Joseph in Egypt -- The first citizen of the international republic of letters -- Interlude II: Lotte in Weimar -- Hitler's most intimate enemy -- Interlude III: the tables of the law -- A blooming flower -- Interlude IV: Joseph the provider -- The loyal American subject -- Interlude V: Doctor Faustus -- The isolated world citizen; Open Access N2 - "During the period of his American exile in the 1930s and 1940s, the German author Thomas Mann became one of the most prominent anti-fascists in the United States, and in so doing forever transformed our understanding of what a modern writer is and should be doing"-- UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/68556/ ER -