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The German bestseller in the late nineteenth century /

"The late nineteenth century was a crucial period for the development of German fiction. Political unification and industrialization were accompanied by the rise of a mass market for German literature, and with it the beginnings of the German bestseller. Offering escape, romance, or adventure,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Woodford, Charlotte, Schofield, Benedict
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2012.
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: German fiction and the marketplace in the nineteenth century
  • Part I. The aesthetics of success and failure
  • 1. Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben
  • 2. Felix Dahn's Ein Kampf um Rom
  • 3. Wilhelm Jensen and Wilhelm Raabe
  • 4. Clara Viebig
  • 5. Buddenbrooks as bestseller
  • Part II. Short fiction
  • 6. Homeliness and otherness
  • 7. Berthold Auerbach's Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten
  • 8. Theodor Storm's Der Schimmelreiter
  • Part III. Imagination and identification
  • 9. Selling the experience of the new world
  • 10. E. Marlitt's bestselling poetics
  • 11. Bertha von Suttner's Die Waffen nieder! and Gabriele Reuter's Aus guter Familie
  • 12. Taking sex to market.