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“We help to pull a Jaggenath car”: Eliza M. Butler, Jane E. Harrison and the History of British German Studies (1914–1949) !

“We help to pull a Jaggenath car”: Eliza M. Butler, Jane E. Harrison and the History of British... Frederic Ponten “We help to pull a Jaggenath car” Eliza M. Butler, Jane E. Harrison and the History of British German Studies (1914–1949) 1 Introduction In the history of British German Studies, Eliza M. Butler (1885–1959), the first fe- male professor of German initially at the University of Manchester (1936) and then again at the University of Cambridge (1944), stands out for the scholarly achieve- ments of her biographical writing and especially of her heretical revisions of the German literary tradition. Beyond that, and certainly unusually for a Germanist, Butler is known outside her discipline for her classic Tyranny of Greece over Ger- many (1935), an iconoclastic study, in which she faults one of the most valued traditions of German culture, its love of and overidentification with ideals of An- cient Greece, for facilitating Hitler’s rise to power. Even after accounting for its unique political circumstances, the book should have been a career killer. In- stead, Butler’s irreverence to standards of academic decorum made her professor of German one year after the book’s publication. Nevertheless, the same irrever- ence exposed her as a target of defamation and disappointing rejections through- out her lifetime. She had to deal with accusations http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angermion de Gruyter

“We help to pull a Jaggenath car”: Eliza M. Butler, Jane E. Harrison and the History of British German Studies (1914–1949) !

Ponten, Frederic
Angermion , Volume 15 (1): 34 – Nov 21, 2022
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Frederic Ponten “We help to pull a Jaggenath car” Eliza M. Butler, Jane E. Harrison and the History of British German Studies (1914–1949) 1 Introduction In the history of British German Studies, Eliza M. Butler (1885–1959), the first fe- male professor of German initially at the University of Manchester (1936) and then again at the University of Cambridge (1944), stands out for the scholarly achieve- ments of her biographical writing and especially of her heretical revisions of the German literary tradition. Beyond that, and certainly unusually for a Germanist, Butler is known outside her discipline for her classic Tyranny of Greece over Ger- many (1935), an iconoclastic study, in which she faults one of the most valued traditions of German culture, its love of and overidentification with ideals of An- cient Greece, for facilitating Hitler’s rise to power. Even after accounting for its unique political circumstances, the book should have been a career killer. In- stead, Butler’s irreverence to standards of academic decorum made her professor of German one year after the book’s publication. Nevertheless, the same irrever- ence exposed her as a target of defamation and disappointing rejections through- out her lifetime. She had to deal with accusations

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Published: Nov 21, 2022

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