Format:
IX, 286 S.
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Ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011
ISBN:
9781571134875
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1281016780
,
9781281016782
Series Statement:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Content:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Content:
The late nineteenth century, marked by rapid social and political change in Germany, was also a crucial period for the development of German fiction, for it witnessed the rise of the mass market, and with it the bestseller. Bestselling fiction engaged the values of the new German nation and reflected an emergent middle-class consciousness. Providing escape in unsettling times, bestsellers captured readers' imaginations, but have been neglected by scholars, a situation this volume redresses by focusing not on the accepted intellectual canon but on works read soon after publication by many thous
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 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: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Bestseller; 2: Felix Dahn's Ein Kampf um Rom: Historical Fiction as Melodrama; 3: Wilhelm Jensen and Wilhelm Raabe: Literary Value, Evolutionary Aesthetics, and Competition in the Marketplace; 4: Clara Viebig: Using the Genres of Heimatkunst und Großstadtroman to Create Bestselling Novels; 5: Buddenbrooks as Bestseller; Part II: Short Fiction
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6: Homeliness and Otherness: Reflections on Stifter's Bergkristall7: Berthold Auerbach's Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten: Political and Religious Contexts of a Nineteenth-Century Bestseller; 8: Theodor Storm's Der Schimmelreiter: Schauerrealismus or Gothic Realism in the Family Periodical; Part III: Imagination and Identification; 9: Selling the Experience of the New World: Balduin Möllhausen's Novellistic Imagination of America; 10: E. Marlitt's Bestselling Poetics; 11: Bertha von Suttner's Die Waffen nieder! and Gabriele Reuter's Aus guter Familie: Sentimentality and Social Criticism
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12: Taking Sex to Market: Tagebuch einer Verlorenen: Von einer Toten and Josefine Mutzenbacher, Die Lebensgeschichte einer wienerischen Dirne, von ihr selbst erzähltWorks Cited; Notes on the Contributors; Index; Backcover
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781571137784
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1281016748
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The German bestseller in the late nineteenth century Rochester, NY [u.a.] : Camden House, 2012 ISBN 1571134875
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781571134875
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
Keywords:
Deutsch
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Prosa
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Bestseller
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Geschichte 1850-1910
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Deutsch
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Bestseller
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Geschichte 1850-1910
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Woodford, Charlotte
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