The German bestseller in the late nineteenth century
By: edited by Charlotte Woodford and Benedict Schofield
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781571134875
Subjects: German fiction; History and criticism; Popular literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: German fiction and the marketplace in the nineteenth century/ Charlotte Woodford; title: Pt. 1. The aesthetics of success and failure; title: Gustav Freytag's Soll und haben: politics, aesthetics, and the bestseller/ Benedict Schofield; title: Felix Dahn's Ein kampf um rom: historical fiction as melodrama/ Todd Kontje; title: Wilhelm Jensen and Wilhelm Raabe: literary value, evolutionary aesthetics, and competition in the marketplace/ Nicholas Saul; title: Clara Viebig: using the genres of heimatkunst und grostadtroman to create bestselling novels/ Caroline Bland; title: Buddenbrooks as bestseller/ Ernest Schonfield; title: Pt. 2. Short fiction; title: Homeliness and otherness: reflections on Stifter's Bergkristall/ Martin Swales; title: Berthold Auerbach's Schwarzwalder dorfgeschichten: political and religious contexts of a nineteenth-century bestseller/ Anita Bunyan; title: Theodor storm's Der schimmelreiter: schauerralismus or gothic realism in the family periodical/ Christiane Arndt; title: Pt. 3. Imagination and identification; title: Selling the experience of the new world: Balduin Mollhausen's novellistic imagination of America/ Peter C. Pfeiffer; title: E. Marlitt's bestselling poetics/ Katrin Kohl; title: Bertha von Suttner's Die waffen nieder! and Gabriele Reuter's Aus guter familie: sentimentality and social criticism / Charlotte Woodford; title: Taking sex to market: Tagebuch einer Verlorenen: Von einer Toten and Josefine Mutzenbacher, Die Lebensgeschichte einer wienerischen Dirne, von ihr selbst erzahlt/ Elizabeth Boa.