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Black devil and iron angel : the railway in nineteenth-century German realism /

"In his emphasis on the legitimacy of both scientific and non-scientific approaches to understanding, Youngman follows the lead of Charles Percy Snow, who, in the mid-twentieth century, identified what he considered a dangerous rift between literary intellectuals on the one hand and scientists...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Youngman, Paul A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • History of the German railway
  • Purveyor culture or culture killer?
  • Survey of current research
  • Realism and the railway
  • Overview of the primary literature
  • Berthold Auerbach
  • 'Auf einem Acker an der Eisenbahn"
  • Auerbach and realism
  • Sträflinge
  • Das Nest an der Bahn
  • Peter Rosegger
  • Rosegger, Auerbach, and realism
  • Essays on progress
  • "Der Dorfbahnhof"
  • Die neue Bahn
  • Das ewige Licht
  • Theodor Fontane
  • Fontane's realism
  • Cecile
  • Effi Briest
  • Gerhart Hauptmann
  • Hauptmann, realism, and mythology
  • "Im Nachtzug"
  • Bahnwärter Thiel
  • Max Eyth
  • "Poesie und Technik
  • Die Brück' am Tay"
  • Berufstragik
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A. "Im Nachtzug"
  • Appendix B. "Die Brück' am Tay."