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Subject(s)

• Fontane, Theodor 1819-1898—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Fontane, Theodor 1819-1898—Influence [Browse]

Editor

• Lyon, John B., 1966- [Browse]
• Tucker, Brian, 1976- [Browse]

Series

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture [More in this series]

Summary note

"Theodor Fontane remains a canonical figure in German literature, the most important representative of poetic realism, and likely the best German-language novelist between Goethe and Mann, yet scholarly attention to his works often lags behind his stature, at least in the English-speaking academy. This volume, coinciding with Fontane's 200th birthday in 2019, assesses the relevance of his works for us today and also draws attention to the most current English-language research. Much has changed in the last two decades in critical theory, and the volume highlights how new methodological approaches and new archival research can update our understanding of Fontane's works. Although his novels are famously rooted in the details of quotidian life in nineteenth-century Germany, they also reflect larger historical transformations that resonate with our world today (e.g., financial crisis, class conflict, changing gender roles, and migration) and so speak to contemporary critical interests. The volume's contributors draw on literary and cultural studies approaches including gender and sexuality studies, emotion studies, transnationalism and globalization, media and visual studies, rhetorical criticism, paratextual criticism, and digital humanities. Their contributions survey a wide range of Fontane's literary production in order to speak to both German and non-German audiences in the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction : Fontane in the twenty-first century / John B. Lyon and Brian Tucker
• Narrative digression and the transformation of nationhood in Vor dem Sturm / Russell A. Berman
• Nasty women : female anger as moral judgment in Grete Minde and Effi Briest / Holly A. Yanacek
• Performing the philistine : gossip as a narrative device and a strategy for reflection on anti-Semitism in Theodor Fontane's L'adultera / Nicolas von Passavant
• To have an eye : visual culture and the misapprehension of class in Irrungen, Wirrungen / Brian Tucker
• Fontane as a pacifist? the antiwar message in Quitt and Fontane's changing attitude to militarism / James N. Bade
• Disjunctive transnationalisms in Fontane's Frau Jenny Treibel / John B. Lyon
• On the "right measure" in Effi Briest : ethics and aesthetics of the prosaic / Katharina Adeline Engler-Coldren
• Transfiguration, effect, and engagement : Theodor Fontane's aesthetic thought / Michael J. White
• Fontane and world literature : Prussians, Jews, and the specter of Africa in Die Poggenpuhls / Todd Kontje
• Von Zwanzig bis dreissig : the male author in parts / Lynne Tatlock
• Melusine von Barby's barriers and connections in Fontane's Der Stechlin / Christian Thomas
• Senescence and Fontane's Der Stechlin / Ervin Malakaj.

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Other title(s)

Fontane in the 21st century

ISBN

• 9781640140097 ((hardcover : : alk. paper))
• 1640140093 ((hardcover : : alk. paper))

LCCN

2019000333

OCLC

1061302982

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