The German Historical Novel Since The Eighteenth Century

Author : Daniela Richter
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443857277

Get Book

The German Historical Novel since the Eighteenth Century by Daniela Richter Pdf

The historical novel is a genre which has enjoyed widespread popularity in Germany from its beginnings in the eighteenth century. At that time, increased literacy among the middle and lower classes had resulted in a greater demand for reading material aimed at a general audience. Because of its educational and entertaining characteristics, the historical novel quickly became a dominant genre among other forms of popular literature. To this day, it constitutes a major sector on the German book market and is, together with popular TV series, documentaries, and museum exhibits, an important part of German Geschichtskultur. This collection of essays looks at aesthetic and thematic continuities, as well as changes in the development of the genre in Germany from the late eighteenth century to the present, and gives insights into the novels’ political and socio-cultural implications. The articles investigate historical novels from writers such as Benedikte Naubert, the ‘mother’ of German historical fiction, nineteenth-century popular writers Georg Ebers and Hermann Sudermann, modern writers such as Alfred Döblin, Hermann Hesse, and Hermann Broch, post-Wende works such as those by Thomas Brussig, Christa Wolf, and Ingo Schulze, and contemporary historical fiction by Sabine Weigand, Eveline Hasler and Petra Durst-Benning.

Author : Jan Stievermann,Oliver Scheiding
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271063003

Get Book

A Peculiar Mixture by Jan Stievermann,Oliver Scheiding Pdf

Through innovative interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh avenues of inquiry, the nine essays collected in A Peculiar Mixture endeavor to transform how we understand the bewildering multiplicity and complexity that characterized the experience of German-speaking people in the middle colonies. They explore how the various cultural expressions of German speakers helped them bridge regional, religious, and denominational divides and eventually find a way to partake in America’s emerging national identity. Instead of thinking about early American culture and literature as evolving continuously as a singular entity, the contributions to this volume conceive of it as an ever-shifting and tangled “web of contact zones.” They present a society with a plurality of different native and colonial cultures interacting not only with one another but also with cultures and traditions from outside the colonies, in a “peculiar mixture” of Old World practices and New World influences. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Rosalind J. Beiler, Patrick M. Erben, Cynthia G. Falk, Marie Basile McDaniel, Philip Otterness, Liam Riordan, Matthias Schönhofer, and Marianne S. Wokeck.

Author : Barbara Becker-Cantarino,James N. Hardin
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571132468

Get Book

German Literature of the Eighteenth Century by Barbara Becker-Cantarino,James N. Hardin Pdf

The Enlightenment was based on the use of reason, common sense, and "natural law," and was paralleled by an emphasis on feelings and the emotions in religious, especially Pietist circles. Progressive thinkers in England, France, and later in Germany began to assail the absolutism of the state and the orthodoxy of the Church; in Germany the line led from Leibniz, Thomasius, and Wolff to Lessing and Kant, and eventually to the rise of an educated upper middle class. Literary developments encompassed the emergence of a national theater, literature, and a common literary language. This became possible in part because of advances in literacy and education, especially among bourgeois women, and the reorganization of book production and the book market. This major new reference work provides a fresh look at the major literary figures, works, and cultural developments from around 1700 up to the late Enlightenment. They trace the 18th-century literary revival in German-speaking countries: from occasional and learned literature under the influence of French Neoclassicism to the establishment of a new German drama, religious epic and secular poetry, and the sentimentalist novel of self-fashioning. The volume includes the new, stimulating works of women, a chapter on music and literature, chapters on literary developments in Switzerland and in Austria, and a chapter on reactions to the Enlightenment from the 19th century to the present. The recent revaluing of cultural and social phenomena affecting literary texts informs the presentations in the individual chapters and allows for the inclusion of hitherto neglected but important texts such as essays, travelogues, philosophical texts, and letters. Contributors: Kai Hammermeister, Katherine Goodman, Helga Brandes, Rosmarie Zeller, Kevin Hilliard, Francis Lamport, Sarah Colvin, Anna Richards, Franz M. Eybl, W. Daniel Wilson, Robert Holub. Barbara Becker-Cantarino is Research Professor in German at the Ohio State University.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781611463392

Get Book

The Child Witches of Lucerne and Buchau by Anonim Pdf

A translation of Eveline Hasler’s novel, Die Vogelmacherin— literally “The Bird-Maker Girl”—this book tells the story of three children who were prosecuted for witchcraft in seventeenth-century Europe. Challenging strict boundaries between fiction and history, Hasler’s novel draws on trial records and other archival sources that document the legal cases against these children. While the original work offers a detailed portrait of political and religious violence, Maierhofer goes a step further by providing essential context for the novel. Her wide-ranging introduction and meticulous annotations illuminate the relevance and wider significance of Hasler’s writing. For the first time in English, this book brings Hasler’s traumatic history of witchcraft trials to life, exposing the violence of a culture shaped by fear, authoritarian power, and ideals of conformity.

Author : Moritz Steinschneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Jewish literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011395530

Get Book

Jewish Literature from the Eighth to the Eighteenth Century by Moritz Steinschneider Pdf

Author : Richard H. Tilly,Michael Kopsidis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226725574

Get Book

From Old Regime to Industrial State by Richard H. Tilly,Michael Kopsidis Pdf

In From Old Regime to Industrial State, Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis question established thinking about Germany’s industrialization. While some hold that Germany experienced a sudden breakthrough to industrialization, the authors instead consider a long view, incorporating market demand, agricultural advances, and regional variations in industrial innovativeness, customs, and governance. They begin their assessment earlier than previous studies to show how the 18th-century emergence of international trade and the accumulation of capital by merchants fed commercial expansion and innovation. This book provides the history behind the modern German economic juggernaut.

Author : Christina Gerhardt,Marco Abel
Publisher : Screen Cultures: German Film a
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571139955

Get Book

Celluloid Revolt by Christina Gerhardt,Marco Abel Pdf

Provides new insights into German-language cinema around 1968 and its relationship to the period's epoch-making cultural and political happenings.

Author : Sander L. Gilman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 913 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300068245

Get Book

Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture, 1096-1996 by Sander L. Gilman Pdf

This book is the first to provide a history of Jewish writing & thought in the German-speaking world. By the most distinguished scholars in the field, the book is arranged chronologically, moving from the 11th century to the present.

Author : Eleanor Dobson,Nichola Tonks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786736703

Get Book

Ancient Egypt in the Modern Imagination by Eleanor Dobson,Nichola Tonks Pdf

Ancient Egypt has always been a source of fascination to writers, artists and architects in the West. This book is the first study to address representations of Ancient Egypt in the modern imagination, breaking down conventional disciplinary boundaries between fields such as History, Classics, Art History, Fashion, Film, Archaeology, Egyptology, and Literature to further a nuanced understanding of ancient Egypt in cultures stretching from the eighteenth century to the present day, emphasising how some of the various meanings of ancient Egypt to modern people have traversed time and media. Divided into three themes, the chapters scrutinise different aspects of the use of ancient Egypt in a variety of media, looking in particular at the ways in which Egyptology as a discipline has influenced representations of Egypt, ancient Egypt's associations with death and mysticism, as well as connections between ancient Egypt and gendered power. The diversity of this study aims to emphasise both the multiplicity and the patterning of popular responses to ancient Egypt, as well as the longevity of this phenomenon and its relevance today.

Author : Christiane Hertel
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Chinoiserie (Art)
ISBN : 0271082372

Get Book

Siting China in Germany by Christiane Hertel Pdf

Introduces and interprets the complex history of German chinoiserie in the long eighteenth century, focusing on its emergence in literature and the arts.

Author : Adrien Fauchier-Magnan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000007688

Get Book

The Small German Courts in the Eighteenth Century by Adrien Fauchier-Magnan Pdf

First published in English in 1958, this book charts the history of the small states which emerged in Germany from the chaos of the Thirty Years War. A period which has been neglected by English historians, this book covers both the German principalities generally and specifically a study of The Duchy of Württemberg and the County of Montbéliard. It builds up a world of eccentricity, documenting little-known facts about palaces and princes.

Author : Benjamin Binder,Jennifer Ronyak
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781009007757

Get Book

The Lied at the Crossroads of Performance and Musicology by Benjamin Binder,Jennifer Ronyak Pdf

There seems to be an essential relationship between the performance and the scholarship of the German Lied. Yet the process by which scholarly inquiry and performative practices mutually benefit one another can appear mysterious and undefined, in part because any dialogue between the two invariably unfolds in relatively informal environments – such as the rehearsal studio, seminar room or conference workshop. Contributions from leading musicologists and prominent Lied performers here build on and deepen these interactions to reconsider topics including Werktreue aesthetics and concert practices; the authority of the composer versus the performer; the value of lesser-known, incomplete, or compositionally modified songs; and the traditions, habits and prejudices of song recitalists regarding issues like transposition, programming and dramatic modes of presentation. The book as a whole reveals the reciprocal relevance of Lied musicology and Lied performance, thereby opening doors to fresh and exciting modes of interpretative artistry and intellectual discovery.

Author : J. A. Downie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191651069

Get Book

The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel by J. A. Downie Pdf

Although the emergence of the English novel is generally regarded as an eighteenth-century phenomenon, this is the first book to be published professing to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. This Handbook surveys the development of the English novel during the 'long' eighteenth century-in other words, from the later seventeenth century right through to the first three decades of the nineteenth century when, with the publication of the novels of Jane Austen and Walter Scott, 'the novel' finally gained critical acceptance and assumed the position of cultural hegemony it enjoyed for over a century. By situating the novels of the period which are still read today against the background of the hundreds published between 1660 and 1830, this Handbook not only covers those 'masters and mistresses' of early prose fiction-such as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, Scott and Austen-who are still acknowledged to be seminal figures in the emergence and development of the English novel, but also the significant number of recently-rediscovered novelists who were popular in their own day. At the same time, its comprehensive coverage of cultural contexts not considered by any existing study, but which are central to the emergence of the novel, such as the book trade and the mechanics of book production, copyright and censorship, the growth of the reading public, the economics of culture both in London and in the provinces, and the re-printing of popular fiction after 1774, offers unique insight into the making of the English novel.

Author : Daniel Hall
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3039100777

Get Book

French and German Gothic Fiction in the Late Eighteenth Century by Daniel Hall Pdf

The literature of terror and horror continues to fascinate readers both casual and more critical, and it has long been recognised as an international, not merely British, phenomenon. This study provides an in-depth and text-based analysis of Gothic fiction in France and Germany from earlier literary traditions, through the influence of the English Gothic novel, to an extraordinary popularity and dominance by the end of the eighteenth century. It examines how some of the motifs most closely associated with the Gothic - secret societies, the supernatural and suspense, among others - are the product of an uncertain age, and how the use of those motifs differed not just across languages and borders, which in fact the Gothic often crossed with ease, but according to the views, concerns and sometimes insecurities of individual authors. What emerges is a complex genre more diverse than any 'list of Gothic ingredients' would have us believe. Many of the notions and devices explored by the French and German Gothic then continue to intrigue, disturb and unsettle today.

Author : Marie Hay
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1333443544

Get Book

A German Pompadour by Marie Hay Pdf

Excerpt from A German Pompadour: Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine Von Gravenitz Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg; A Narrative of the Eighteenth Century IN a dusty, time-soiled packet of legal papers which had lain untouched for nigh upon two hundred years, the extraordinary history of Wilhelmine von Gravenitz is set forth in all the colourless reticence of official documents. And yet something of the thrill of the superstitious fear, and the virtuous dis approval of the lawyers who composed these writings, pierces through the stilted phrases. Like a faint fragrance of faded rose-leaves, a breath of this woman's charm seems to cling and elusively to peep out of the curt record of her crimes. Enough at least to incite the wanderer in History's byways to a further study of this potent German forerunner of the Pompadour. To search through the Stuttgart archives, to ferret out forgotten books in dusty old book-shops, to fit together the links in the chain of events of the woman's story, to haunt the scenes of bygone Splendour in deserted palace and castle, old-world garden and desolate mansion; such has been the delightful labour which has gone to the telling of the true history of the Gravenitz. The Land-despoiler the downtrodden peasantry and indignant burghers named her, for they hated her as their sort must ever hate the beautiful, elegant, haughty woman of the great world. They called her sinner, which she was; and she called them canaille, which they probably were. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."