Thomas Mann’s the Magic Mountain: A Casebook

Hans Rudolf Vaget is Helen and Laura Shedd Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature Emeritus at Smith College. Born in Czechoslovakia, educated in Germany, Great Britain, and the USA, H. R. Vaget has been teaching German Studies at Smith College since 1967. He has published widely on Goethe and his age; Wagner and Wagnerism; Thomas Mann and modernism.

Brings together the scholarship of some of the brightest new people in the field of Mann studies and cultural studies

INTRODUCTION, HANS RUDOLF VAGET; 1. The Making of The Magic Mountain, HANS RUDOLF VAGET; 2. Death, Knowledge and the Formation of Self: The Magic Mountain, MARTIN TRAVERS; 3. Photography and Bildung in The Magic Mountain, ERIC DOWNING; 4. Projections on Blank Space: Landscape, Nationality, and Identity in Der Zauberberg, NANCY P. NENNO; 5. Politically Suspect: Music on the Magic Mountain, HANS RUDOLF VAGET; 6. Naphta and His Ilk: Jewish Characters in Manns Magic Mountain, FRANKA MARQUARDT AND YAHYA ELSAGHE; 7. Linke Leute von rechts: Thomas Manns Naphta and the Ideological Confluence of Radical Right and Radical Left in the Early Years of the Weimar Republic, ANTHONY GRENVILLE; 8. Modern Masculinities on the Magic Mountain, TODD KONTJE; 9. The Magic Mountain Malady: Der Zauberberg and the Medical Community 1924-2006, MALTE HERWIG; 10. Telling Timelessness in Der Zauberberg, DORRIT COHN; 11. The Magic Mountain: A Humoristic Counterpart to Death in Venice, ELLIS SHOOKMAN; FURTHER READINGS