A Companion to German Realism, 1848-1900
A Companion to German Realism, 1848-1900 (Studies in German Literature) (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture) Todd Kontje (Editor)
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 1571133224
DDC: 830.912
Edition: Hardcover; 2002-06
Summary:
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 canonical texts, but also considers
writers frequently omitted from traditional literary histories, such
as Luise Mühlbach, Friedrich Spielhagen, Louise von François, Karl
May, and Eugenie Marlitt. The introduction situates German realism in
the context of both German literary history and of developments in
other European literatures, and surveys the most prominent critical
studies of ninteenth-century realism. The essays treat the following
topics: Stifter's Brigitta and the lesson of realism; Mühlbach,
Ranke, and the truth of historical fiction; regional histories as
national history in Freytag's Die Ahnen; gender and nation in Louise
von François's historical fiction; theory, reputation, and the career
of Friedrich Spielhagen; Wilhelm Raabe and the German colonial
experience; the poetics of work in Freytag, Stifter, and Raabe;
Jewish identity in Berthold Auerbach's novels; Eugenie Marlitt's
narratives of virtuous desire; the appeal of Karl May in the
Wilhelmine Empire; Thomas Mann's portrayal of male-male desire in his
early short fiction; and Fontane's Effi Briest and the end of
realism. Contributors: Robert C. Holub, Brent O. Petersen, Lynne
Tatlock, Thomas C. Fox, Jeffrey L. Sammons, John Pizer, Hans J.
Rindisbacher, Irene S. Di Maio, Kirsten Belgum, Nina Berman, Robert
Tobin, Russell A. Berman.Todd Kontje is professor of German at the
University of California, San Diego.
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