Niland, R. and Murgatroyd, N.P. (2016) Modernity, horses, and history in Joseph Roth’s Radetzkymarsch. Literature and History, 25 (2). pp. 150-166. ISSN 0306-1973
Abstract
Exploring the subject of horses in Joseph Roth’s best-known novel Radetzkymarsch (1932), this essay examines how Roth’s experience of and response to modernity can be understood through his treatment of the equine. While horses constitute an important subject for Roth in the urban context of his journalism and early fiction in the years following the First World War, in which he offers a politically charged lament for the decline of the horse in quotidian European urban culture, Radetzkymarsch uses the equine to connect to both historical tradition and pre-modernity, while also sceptically interrogating Habsburg imperialism in its end days. Drawing on recent work in Roth scholarship, Austrian cultural history and animal studies, this essay examines how the horse becomes a complex symbol not only for the decline of the Habsburg empire, but of the strain which modernity places on the values of the past.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2016. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Literature & History. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Student Services (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 29 Sep 2016 14:47 |
Last Modified: | 14 Nov 2017 09:53 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306197316667263 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0306197316667263 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:105367 |