Narratives of America and the frontier in nineteenth-century German literature / Jerry Schuchalter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schuchalter, Jerry, 1945-

Series:

North American studies in nineteenth-century German literature ; vol. 25.

North American studies in nineteenth-century German literature ; vol. 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.

German prose literature.

America--In literature.

America.

Frontier and pioneer life in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 302 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : P. Lang, [2000]

Contents:

2. Charles Sealsfield's Fable of the Republic 87

3. Charles Sealsfield and the Frontier Thesis 109

4. Reinhold Solger's Bildungsreise to the New World 127

5. Power and Fable across Textual and Cultural Borders: Gustav Freytag's Rewriting of the Frontier Narrative in Soll und Haben 165

6. Geld and Geist in the Writings of Gottfried Duden, Nikolaus Lenau, and Charles Sealsfield 193

7. "Mein Eden, lieber Sigismund, offnet seine Pforten nicht in Amerika": Dissenting Jewish Images in German Popular Fiction 225

8. Literature, Representation, and the Negotiation of Cultural Lacunae: Studies of Berthold Auerbach, Ferdinand Kurnberger, and Charles Sealsfield 251.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-296) and index.

ISBN:

0820444774

OCLC:

40979970