Private lives and collective destinies
Subtitle: class, nation and the folk in the works of Gustav Freytag (1816-1895)
By: by Benedict Schofield
Series: Texts and dissertations / Modern Humanities Research Association -- v. 81; Bithell series of dissertations / Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies -- v. 37; Texts and dissertations -- v. 81.; Bithell series of dissertations -- v. 37.
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association; Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781907322228; 9781907322990
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; National characteristics, German, in literature; Nationalism in literature; Social classes in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-213) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Towards a national community: the Vormärz poetry; title: Defining class identities: the Vormärz dramas; title: Revolution and reaction: literary practice and the bourgeois cause in the Nachmärz; title: Present pasts: history, Bildung, and the Volkskraft; title: Writing unification: love as an exercise in nation-building; title: Conclusion.