German writing, American reading : women and the import of fiction, 1866-1917
By: Lynne Tatlock
Publisher: Ohio State University; Ohio State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780814211946; 9780814292952
Subjects: German influences; Literature and society; German literature; Translations into English; American literature; History and criticism; Appreciation; Women authors
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : made in Germany, read in America; title: German women writers at home and abroad; title: "Family likenesses" : Marlitt's texts as American books; title: The German art of the happy ending : embellishing and expanding the boundaries of home; title: Enduring domesticity : German novels of remarriage; title: Feminized history : German men in American translation; title: Family matters in postbellum America : Ann Mary Crittenden Coleman (1813-91); title: German fiction clothed in "so brilliant a garb" : Annis Lee Wister (1830-1908); title: Germany at twenty-five cents a copy : Mary Stuart Smith (1834-1917).