Ambiguity as Narrative Strategy in the Prose Work of C.F. Meyer

Deborah S Lund

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 6
• This study of the prose work of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825-1898) focuses on the central role played by ambiguity. This narrative element is traced i... Lees meer

«Der Große Heide Nr. 2»

George F Peters

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 4
• Heine's relationship to Goethe has long been the subject of critical debate, much of it stormy. This is the first major study which seeks to reconcile... Lees meer

Ernst Dronke: His Life and His Works

Alphonso A Frost Jr

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 2
• Ernst Dronke (1822-1891) was a lawyer by training who used his literary and journalistic skills to promote the idea that a drastic change was needed i... Lees meer

Goethe as Cultural Icon

Nancy Birch Wagner

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 17
• The legacy of Goethe in the nineteenth century is familiar and fertile territory to literary scholars. In contrast with typical influence studies, whi... Lees meer

Challenging Separate Spheres

• Paperback | Engels | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 40
• This collection of essays centers on women writers who negotiated, interrogated, and challenged the gender ideology of separate spheres through their ... Lees meer

«Der Letzte Augenblick Der Huebschen Idylle»

Karin Kluger

• Hardcover | Duits | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 31
• Wilhelm Raabe verwendet in seinen Werken Motive aus den Idyllen der Dichter Salomon Geßner und Johann Heinrich Voß. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht ... Lees meer

Intellektuelle Aporie Und Literarische Originalitaet

Mark Lehrer

• Hardcover | Duits | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 8
• Keller, Raabe und Fontane beschäftigen sich mit intellektuellen Paradoxen, die in ihren grössten Werken zugleich literarischen Provokationscharakter a... Lees meer

The Family in Adalbert Stifter's Moral and Aesthetic Universe

Karen Pawluk Danford

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 7
• This study focuses on the role of the family in European bourgeois society and literature in the 19th century through the works of Adalbert Stifter (1... Lees meer

Gustav Freytag and the Prussian Gospel

Larry L Ping

• Paperback | Engels | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 37
• Spanning the worlds of literature and the history profession, the Prussian novelist and historian Gustav Freytag (1816-95) was influential in shaping ... Lees meer

Wagner's Operas and Desire

James M McGlathery

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 22
• Wagner audiences are especially challenged to fathom the meaning of his operas, for there is much mystery as to just what they depict. This study atte... Lees meer

Karl Emil Franzos, 1848-1904

Carl Steiner

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 5
• The present study investigates, updates, summarizes, and expands the hitherto scant scholarly apparatus on the life and work of Karl Emil Franzos (184... Lees meer

Identity in Transition

Helen G Morris-Keitel

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 15
• A detailed analysis of the narration of working-class women's lives in social prose by Ernst Dronke, Adolf Glassbrenner, Louise Otto, Georg Weerth and... Lees meer

Between National Fantasies and Regional Realities

Arne Koch

• Paperback | Engels | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 39
• Despite its popularity during the nineteenth century, regional literature has often been overlooked with regard to its role in the development of Germ... Lees meer

Words Chiseled Into Marble

Beth L Mugge-Meiburg

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 9
• This book provides fascinating insight into C. F. Meyer's inclusion of visual-spatial artworks in his narrative texts. It pinpoints what is most uniqu... Lees meer

Meditations on Jewish Creative Identity

Helen Ferstenberg

• Paperback | Engels | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 34
• Through an analysis of representations of Jewish artists in the works of German-Jewish writers, this book reveals that the issue of a Jewish creative ... Lees meer

Mediating the Past

Alyssa Lonner

• Paperback | Engels | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 36
• As one of the most widely read German authors of the nineteenth century, Gustav Freytag (1816-1895) continues to be associated with the middle class a... Lees meer

Perspectives on Spinoza in Works by Schiller, Buechner, and C.F. Meyer

Rodney R Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 18
• This study is an investigation of the impact of Spinozan metaphysics on German-speaking writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In terms o... Lees meer

Theodor Storm

Christine Geffers Browne

• Hardcover | Duits | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 30
• Die Stormforschung hat sich verschiedentlich mit den Aspekten des Glaubens und Aberglaubens in seinem Werk befasst. Nie jedoch sind diese beiden Glaub... Lees meer

The Art of Comedy and Social Critique in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Rinske Pritchett

• Paperback | Engels | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 35
• During the mid-nineteenth century, Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer pursued a fifty-year career as a playwright and theater manager in Germany, Austria, and S... Lees meer

The Intersection of Material and Poetic Economy

Anna Helm

• Paperback | Engels | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 42
• This work explores the intersection of the material and poetic economies in Soll und Haben and Der Nachsommer . It demonstrates how the main poetical ... Lees meer

Selbstreflexivitaet Der Kunsttheorie in Den Kuenstlernovellen Des Realismus

Christine Anton

• Hardcover | Duits | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 23
• Selbstreflexivität der Kunsttheorie in den Künstlernovellen des Realismus ist eine umfassende Untersuchung der Wechselwirkung und Selbstreflexivität v... Lees meer

Wilhelm Raabe's «Der Hungerpastor» and Charles Dickens's «David Copperfield»

Peter Arnds

• Hardcover | Engels | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 20
• Der Hungerpastor (1864-65) is Wilhelm Raabe's most popular novel. This monograph shows how Raabe borrowed much of the plot and characters from Charles... Lees meer

Trials and Tribunals in the Dramas of Heinrich Von Kleist

Kim I Fordham

• Paperback | Engels | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 41
• What makes the trial so appealing as dramatic form? Why do we watch? Is it simply the quest for truth and justice? Or is it much more than that? From ... Lees meer

On the Seventh Solitude

Rohit Sharma

• Paperback | Engels | North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literatu | nr. 38
• Much as Nietzsche has gained in popularity during the last century, his poetry still has not received the scholarly attention it deserves. On closer s... Lees meer