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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... moral indictment of the peculiar institution : " Sie und die Ihrigen sind so freundlich gegen mich gewesen , wie es ein Amerikaner gegen einen Schwarzen gar nicht sein kann und wie ich es Ihnen niemals in meinem Leben vergessen werde ...
... moral indictment of the peculiar institution : " Sie und die Ihrigen sind so freundlich gegen mich gewesen , wie es ein Amerikaner gegen einen Schwarzen gar nicht sein kann und wie ich es Ihnen niemals in meinem Leben vergessen werde ...
Page 196
... moral condition of the new nation . As a nation with a republican polity and an alleged absence of established institutions , a society , according to this view , could only with great difficulty achieve a civilized standard of morality ...
... moral condition of the new nation . As a nation with a republican polity and an alleged absence of established institutions , a society , according to this view , could only with great difficulty achieve a civilized standard of morality ...
Page 239
... moral character characteristic of the Teutonic hero is unassail- able , but what about his moral intuition ? In the clash between modernity and tradition it is not made clear in the novel whether his moral code serves him well or even ...
... moral character characteristic of the Teutonic hero is unassail- able , but what about his moral intuition ? In the clash between modernity and tradition it is not made clear in the novel whether his moral code serves him well or even ...
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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