The German bestseller in the late nineteenth century / edited by Charlotte Woodford and Benedict Schofield

Published: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2012.
Physical Description: vi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators: Woodford, Charlotte and Schofield, Benedict

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Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Contents

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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9781571134875 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1571134875 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-267) and index.

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