A Companion to German Realism 1848 1900 1st Edition by Todd Kontje 9781571133229 1571133224

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ISBN 10: 1571133224

ISBN 13: 9781571133229

Author: Todd Kontje

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 DieAhnen; 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, andRaabe; 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.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Reawakening German Realism
2. Adalbert Stifter’s Brigitta ,or the Lesson of Realism
3. Mühlbach, Ranke, and the Truth of Historical Fiction
4. “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country”: Regional Histories as National History in Gustav Fre
5. A Woman’s Post: Gender and Nation in Historical Fiction by Louise von François
6. Friedrich Spielhagen: The Demon of Theory and the Decline of Reputation
7. Wilhelm Raabe and the German Colonial Experience
8. From National Task to Individual Pursuit: The Poetics of Work in Freytag, Stifter, and Raabe
9. Das Republikanische, das Demokratische,das Pantheistische: Jewish Identity in Berthold Auerbach’
10. E. Marlitt: Narratives of Virtuous Desire
11. The Appeal of Karl May in the Wilhelmine Empire: Emigration, Modernization, and the Need for Heroes*
12. Making Way for the Third Sex: Liberal and Antiliberal Impulses in Mann’s Portrayal of Male-Male De
13. Effi Briest and the End of Realism

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