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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... success in America , but on his own terms and according to the imperatives of his own culture . The fact that German culture is superior to American culture does not prevent a successful adjustment to American life . Adjustment ...
... success in America , but on his own terms and according to the imperatives of his own culture . The fact that German culture is superior to American culture does not prevent a successful adjustment to American life . Adjustment ...
Page 110
... success for a boy from the provinces by becoming the Secretary of the monastic Order of the Red Cross in Prague , Charles Sealsfield appeared to fulfill an American rags to riches story in the most arch - conservative of European ...
... success for a boy from the provinces by becoming the Secretary of the monastic Order of the Red Cross in Prague , Charles Sealsfield appeared to fulfill an American rags to riches story in the most arch - conservative of European ...
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... success is once again said to be proof of the manifold opportunities that America allegedly offers her immigrants as well as the beneficent , healing effect she supposedly exercises on her flayed European children . ' Yet Solger's story ...
... success is once again said to be proof of the manifold opportunities that America allegedly offers her immigrants as well as the beneficent , healing effect she supposedly exercises on her flayed European children . ' Yet Solger's story ...
Contents
Charles Sealsfields Fable of the Republic | 87 |
Charles Sealsfield and the Frontier Thesis | 109 |
Reinhold Solgers Bildungsreise to the New World | 127 |
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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