German writing, American reading : women and the import of fiction, 1866-1917 /

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"In postbellum America, publishers vigorously reprinted books that were foreign in origin, and Americans thus read internationally even at a moment of national consolidation. A subset of Americans' international reading--nearly 100 original texts, approximately 180 American translations, m...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tatlock, Lynne, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Literature and society > United States.
German literature > Appreciation > United States.
German literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
German literature > Translations into English > History and criticism.
Domestic fiction, German > Translations into English > History and criticism.
Women > Books and reading > United States > History.
American literature > German influences.
Littérature et société > États-Unis.
Littérature allemande > Appréciation > États-Unis.
Littérature américaine > Influence allemande.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
American literature > German influences
German literature > Appreciation
German literature > Translations into English
German literature > Women authors
Literature and society
Women > Books and reading
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : made in Germany, read in America
  • German women writers at home and abroad
  • "Family likenesses" : Marlitt's texts as American books
  • The German art of the happy ending : embellishing and expanding the boundaries of home
  • Enduring domesticity : German novels of remarriage
  • Feminized history : German men in American translation
  • Family matters in postbellum America : Ann Mary Crittenden Coleman (1813-91)
  • German fiction clothed in "so brilliant a garb" : Annis Lee Wister (1830-1908)
  • Germany at twenty-five cents a copy : Mary Stuart Smith (1834-1917).

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