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In this study of the prose fiction of Das Junge Deutschland, the internal stresses and paradoxes of specific texts are examined and special attention is devoted to the unfulfilled strivings toward realism. Following an introduction to the young German problem, with special reference to Wienbarg, there are essays on Gutzkow, Mundt, Kuhne, and, as a contrast, the major novels of Immermann. The essays attempt to enhance the understanding of the p...

This study of German fiction about America in the nineteenth century concentrates in detail on three writers: Charles Sealsfield (Carl Postl, 1793-1864), an escaped Moravian monk who came to New Orleans in 1823 and wrote the first major German novels about the United States, Friedrich Gerstacker (1816-1872), who, among his many experiences in America as a young man, lived as a backwoodsman in Arkansas and who later produced a large body of fic...

The book is divided into three parts: an overview of Raabc's career, his problems with the public, and the early reception history that did so much to damage his reputation, thematic analyses that seek to release him from received opinions concerning the nature and quality of his oeuvre by exhibiting his versatility and polyperspectivism, and interpretations of individual works.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the...

Chronicles the most important scholarly criticism of the 19th-century German writer Wilhelm Raabe, from his day to the present.

Heinrich Heine has been one of the liveliest topics in German literary studies for the past fifteen years. His life was marked by an exceptionally high pitch of constant public controversy and an extraordinary quantity of legend and speculation surround his reputation. This biography, the first in English in over twenty years and the first fully documented one in over a century, makes full use of the newest material in contemporary studies as ...

The twenty-volume edition of The German Classics: Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English was edited by Kuno Francke of Harvard (1855-1930), the most prestigious professor of German in America at the time. While it bears the imprint dates 1913 and 1914, it was not completed until mid-1915, just in time for the submarine sinking of the passenger liner Lusitania in May of that year. The edition was publicized with great fanfare...

Unter dem Titel Heinrich Heine: Alternative Perspectives, 1985-2005, vereinigt Jeffrey L. Sammons 16 Beiträge auf englisch und deutsch, die in den 20 Jahren seit seinem letzten Sammelband erschienen sind. Da sie im Ausland konzipiert worden sind, stehen sie etwas ausserhalb des innerdeutschen Consensus über Heine, der sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten verfestigt hat. Sie behandeln u. a.: Heines Urteil über Eichendorff, die amerikanische bzw. jüd...

Includes Adalbert Stifer's Preface to Many-Colored Stones, Granite and Limestone, Annette von Droste-Hulshoff's The Jews Beech, Jeremias Gotthelf's The Black Spider, Franz Grillparzer's The Poor Musician, and Eduard Morike's Mozart on the Way to Prague.

Heinrich Heine has been one of the liveliest topics in German literary studies for the past fifteen years. His life was marked by an exceptionally high pitch of constant public controversy and an extraordinary quantity of legend and speculation surround his reputation. This biography, the first in English in over twenty years and the first fully documented one in over a century, makes full use of the newest material in contemporary studies as ...

The book series Studies in the History of German Literature covers the whole spectrum of research into German literary history and comprises monographs and collected volumes on individual epochs from the close of the Middle Ages up to the present day. It presents contributions explicating central concepts from literary history and on individual authors and works.

Die Protokolle der Weisen von Zion" sind seit ihrem Erscheinen in Rußland das am weitesten verbreitete, zählebigste Dokument des modernen internationalen Antisemitismus geblieben. Angeblich der Text von 24 geheimen Vorträgen über den jüdischen Plan, zur Weltherrschaft zu gelangen, sind die "Protokolle" fast seit der ersten Stunde als lächerliche Fälschung entlarvt worden, trotzdem tauchen sie immer wieder in verschiedenen Sprachen bis zum heut...