Review by Choice Review
Having published extensively on exile literature (his works include a biography of Ernst Toller, He Was a German, CH, Feb'91), Dove (Univ. of Greenwich, UK) now offers the first book to deal exclusively with the complexities of literary exile in Great Britain during the Nazi years and the effects of that exile on both writer and host country. He chose five German-language luminaries to particularize the study: Alfred Kerr, Max Herrmenn-Neibe, Karl Otten, Robert Neumann, and Stefan Zweig. After a brief overview of the writers' accomplishments before exile, Dove explores the difficulties they encountered while getting established, their reception in Britain, the forced internment of some of them, their contributions to the wartime propaganda of the BBC, their problems with the English language, and their reception in Germany after the war. The style is clear and concise, the research impressively thorough (including the examination of unpublished archival material), and the bibliograp hy extensive. A worthwhile contribution to scholarship, this book will be enjoyed by anyone interested in cultural history, the exile phenomenon, or 20th-century German literature. R. Acker University of Montana
Copyright American Library Association, used with permission.
Review by Choice Review
