Narratives of America and the Frontier in Nineteenth-century German LiteratureGerman literature about America has consistently occupied a marginal position in both German and American studies. This study attempts an overall interpretation of such nineteenth-century literature by charting its most significant narratives. Narratives are thus shown to be embedded and generated in a bicultural or multicultural setting derived from historical givens as well as from the possibilities inherent in fabrication. The result is the illumination of an area previously neglected in literature, revealing not only intricate literary creations, but also significant insights about culture, canonicity, and the construction of national identities. |
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Hawkins sanctifies the values of civilization , Bildung , and interestingly enough
the marketplace against the traditional code of the West . It is also perhaps the
first attempt in German literature to legitimate the role of the German author of the
...
Hawkins sanctifies the values of civilization , Bildung , and interestingly enough
the marketplace against the traditional code of the West . It is also perhaps the
first attempt in German literature to legitimate the role of the German author of the
...
Page 116
New England , and his views on the West enjoyed a certain popularity . Abiding
by the same narrative as Sealsfield , Dwight notes , “ All countries contain
restless inhabitants , men impatient of labor . . . . Under despotic governments
they are ...
New England , and his views on the West enjoyed a certain popularity . Abiding
by the same narrative as Sealsfield , Dwight notes , “ All countries contain
restless inhabitants , men impatient of labor . . . . Under despotic governments
they are ...
Page 124
Henry Nash Smith , Virgin Land : The American West as Symbol and Myth (
Cambridge , Mass . : Harvard University Press , 1950 ) , p . 257 . This
ambivalence may be rooted , as Annette Kolodny notes , in some deeper psychic
functions and ...
Henry Nash Smith , Virgin Land : The American West as Symbol and Myth (
Cambridge , Mass . : Harvard University Press , 1950 ) , p . 257 . This
ambivalence may be rooted , as Annette Kolodny notes , in some deeper psychic
functions and ...
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Contents
Charles Sealsfields Fable of the Republic | 87 |
Charles Sealsfield and the Frontier Thesis | 109 |
Reinhold Solgers Bildungsreise to the New World | 127 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Narratives of America and the Frontier in Nineteenth-century German Literature Volume 25 of North American Studies Volume 25 of North American studies in nineteenth-century German literature |
| Author | Jerry Schuchalter |
| Publisher | P. Lang, 2000 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Jul 2008 |
| ISBN | 0820444774, 9780820444772 |
| Length | 302 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / European / German |
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