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A companion to German realism, 1848-1900 /

This volume of new essays by leading scholars treats a representative sampling of German realist prose from the period 1848 to 1900, the period of its dominance of the German literary landscape. It includes essays on familiar, canonical authors -- Stifter, Freytag, Raabe, Fontane, Thomas Mann -- and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kontje, Todd Curtis, 1954- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : Camden House, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Inc., [2002]
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Reawakening German realism / Todd Kontje
  • Adalbert Stifter's Brigitta, or the Lesson of realism / Robert C. Holub
  • Mühlbach, Ranke, and the truth of historical fiction / Brent O. Peterson
  • "In the heart of the heart of the country": regional histories as national history in Gustav Freytag's Die Ahnen (1872-80) / Lynne Tatlock
  • Woman's post: gender and nation in historical fiction by Louise von François / Thomas C. Fox
  • Friedrich Spielhagen: the demon of theory and the decline of reputation / Jeffrey L. Sammons
  • Wilhelm Raabe and the German colonial experience / John Pizer
  • From national task to individual pursuit: the poetics of work in Freytag, Stifter, and Raabe / Hans J. Rindisbacher
  • Das Republikanische, das Demokratische, das Pantheistische: Jewish identity in Berthold Auerbach's novels / Irene S. Di Maio
  • E. Marlitt: narratives of virtuous desire / Kirsten Belgum
  • Appeal of Karl May in the Wilhelmine Empire: emigration, modernization, and the need for heroes / Nina Berman
  • Making way for the third sex: liberal and antiliberal impulses in Mann's portayal of male-male desire in his early short fiction / Robert Tobin
  • Effi Briest and the end of realism / Russell A. Berman.