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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... ideology , centered around a carefully structured code which relegated money and acquisitiveness to lower values ad- hered to by those outside the court . The careful demarcation in the novel between Shatterhand's values and those of ...
... ideology , centered around a carefully structured code which relegated money and acquisitiveness to lower values ad- hered to by those outside the court . The careful demarcation in the novel between Shatterhand's values and those of ...
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... ideology and myth ( manifest destiny and the doctrine of progress ) . However , the actual connections between Sealsfield's achieve- ment and Turner's frontier thesis have never been adequately documented . For studies on the German ...
... ideology and myth ( manifest destiny and the doctrine of progress ) . However , the actual connections between Sealsfield's achieve- ment and Turner's frontier thesis have never been adequately documented . For studies on the German ...
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... ideology ( think of Thomas Mann's Betrach- tungen eines Unpolitischen ( 1918 ) ) exerted an important influence on German political culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . In the Sonderweg ideology more emphasis has been ...
... ideology ( think of Thomas Mann's Betrach- tungen eines Unpolitischen ( 1918 ) ) exerted an important influence on German political culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . In the Sonderweg ideology more emphasis has been ...
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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American culture Amerikabild Amerikamüde amerikanische Amerikaroman Anton in Amerika argues Balduin Möllhausen becomes Biedermeier Bildung Börnstein's capitalism Charles Sealsfield civilization concept Cooper countinghouse defined deutsche deutschen Literatur Deutschland Duden embodied emigration essay ethnic Europe European example familiar Fink Frederick Jackson Turner Freytag Friedrich Gerstäcker frontier thesis Geist Geld German culture German fiction German hero German literature German-American German-American Literature Goethe Grund Gustav Freytag Helmstedt Hildesheim History ideal ideology immigrants Indian intellectual interpretation invoked Isaak Jacksonian Jahrhunderts James Fenimore Cooper Jewish Karl Scharnhorst Kürnberger lacunae Land Leben Lenau liberal literary Mardochai Menschen modernity Möllhausen moral motif myth narrative narrator native Neue nineteenth century Nordamerika novel Olms paradigm popular published reader republic republican Ruppius's Scharnhorst Shatterhand significant society Solger Soll Soll und Haben stereotypes symbol theme tradition Turner University Press unserer values Vereinigten Staaten vision Volk Vormärz Wahlverwandtschaften Welt Werke Winnetou writers Yankee York