Mediating culture in the seventeenth-century German novel : Eberhard Werner Happel, 1647-1690 / Gerhild Scholz Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scholz Williams, Gerhild, 1942- author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Happel, Eberhard Werner, 1647-1690--Criticism and interpretation.

Happel, Eberhard Werner.

Happel, Eberhard Werner, 1647-1690--Sources.

Happel, Eberhard Werner, 1647-1690--Characters.

German literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

German literature.

German fiction--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

German fiction.

German literature--Social aspects--History--17th century.

Heroes in literature.

National characteristics, German, in literature.

Gender identity in literature.

East and West in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Eberhard Happel, Baroque German author of an extensive body of work of fiction and nonfiction, has for many years been categorized as a 'courtly-gallant' novelist. In Mediating Culture in the Seventeenth-Century German Novel, author Gerhild Scholz Williams argues that categorizing him thus is to seriously misread him and to miss out on a fascinating perspective on this dynamic period in German history. Happel primarily lived and worked in the vigorous port city of Hamburg, which was a 'media center' in terms of the access it offered to a wide library of books in public and private collections, and Hamburg's port status meant it buzzed with news and information. Happel's novels deal with many topics of current interest--explorations of national identity formation, gender and sexualities, Western European encounters with neighbors to the East, confrontations with non-European and non-Western powers and cultures--and they feature multiple media, including news reports, news collections, and travel writings. As a result, Happel's use of contemporary source material in his novels feeds the current interest in the impact of the production of knowledge on 17th-century narrative. Mediating Culture in the Seventeenth-Century German Novel explores the narrative wealth and multiversity of Happel's work, examines Happel's novels as illustrative of 17th-century novel writing in Germany, and investigates the synergistic relationship in Happel's writings between the booming print media industry and the evolution of the German novel"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Setting the Stage

2. "The Court of Public Opinion" : Fictionalizing Encounters with Historical Heroes (Imre Thököly and Friedrich von Schomberg)

3. Dangerous Passage : Pirates, Robbers, Captives, and Slaves

4. Losing Direction : Romance and Gender Confusions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472120109

0472120107

OCLC:

880170321

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.5911170