Month: July 2025
'Kadettengeschichten: The Siren Call of Militarism in the Prussian Cadet-School Story'in The German National Imagination from the Early Modern Period to the Present: Cultural Identities in a Changing Landscape. Essays for Joachim Whaley, ed. Charlotte Woodford, Anita Bunyan, and Margarete Tiessen, Cambridge (Legenda Press), 2025, pp. 96-112.
This essay investigates a little-known genre of German children's literature, the Prussian cadet-school story, exploring the glorification of patriotic feeling and martial career propspects in volumes such as Paul von Szczepanski’s Spartanerjünglinge (Spartan Youths) and Johannes van Dewall’s Kadettengeschichten (Cadet-Tales).Read more...