UID:
almafu_9960997346902883
Format:
1 online resource (vi, 286 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-281-01678-0
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9786613772084
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1-57113-778-5
Series Statement:
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Content:
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, as well as insights into the modern world, nineteenth-century bestsellers often captured the imagination of readers well into the twentieth century and beyond. However, many have been neglected by scholars. This volume offers new readings of literary realism by focusing not on the accepted intellectual canon but on commercially successful fiction in its material and social contexts. It investigates bestsellers from writers such as Freytag, Dahn, Jensen, Raabe, Viebig, Stifter, Auerbach, Storm, Möllhausen, Marlitt, Suttner, and Thomas Mann. The contributions examine the aesthetic strategies that made the works such a success, and writers' attempts to appeal simultaneously on different levels to different readers. Bestselling writers often sought to accommodate the expectations of publishers and the marketplace, while preserving some sense of artistic integrity. This volume sheds light on the important effect of the mass market on the writing not just of popular works, but of German prose fiction on all levels.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Feb 2023).
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Introduction: German fiction and the marketplace in the nineteenth century/ Charlotte Woodford -- Pt. 1. The aesthetics of success and failure -- Gustav Freytag's Soll und haben: politics, aesthetics, and the bestseller/ Benedict Schofield -- Felix Dahn's Ein kampf um rom: historical fiction as melodrama/ Todd Kontje -- Wilhelm Jensen and Wilhelm Raabe: literary value, evolutionary aesthetics, and competition in the marketplace/ Nicholas Saul -- Clara Viebig: using the genres of heimatkunst und grostadtroman to create bestselling novels/ Caroline Bland -- Buddenbrooks as bestseller/ Ernest Schonfield -- Pt. 2. Short fiction -- Homeliness and otherness: reflections on Stifter's Bergkristall/ Martin Swales -- Berthold Auerbach's Schwarzwalder dorfgeschichten: political and religious contexts of a nineteenth-century bestseller/ Anita Bunyan -- Theodor storm's Der schimmelreiter: schauerralismus or gothic realism in the family periodical/ Christiane Arndt -- Pt. 3. Imagination and identification -- Selling the experience of the new world: Balduin Mollhausen's novellistic imagination of America/ Peter C. Pfeiffer -- E. Marlitt's bestselling poetics/ Katrin Kohl -- Bertha von Suttner's Die waffen nieder! and Gabriele Reuter's Aus guter familie: sentimentality and social criticism / Charlotte Woodford -- Taking sex to market: Tagebuch einer Verlorenen: Von einer Toten and Josefine Mutzenbacher, Die Lebensgeschichte einer wienerischen Dirne, von ihr selbst erzahlt/ Elizabeth Boa.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-57113-487-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.1515/9781571137784
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781571137784/type/BOOK
