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Subject(s)

• German fiction—19th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• America—In literature [Browse]

Series

University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 121. [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-336) and index.

Contents

• Pt. I. Ideology: Charles Sealsfield. 1. The Sealsfield Riddle. 2. What Is an Austrian Jacksonian? Sealsfield's Political Evolution from The Indian Chief (1829) to Der Legitime und die Republikaner (1833). 3. Slavery, Race, and Nation: The Antebellum Southern Context. 4. The Shape of Freedom in the Plantation Novels. 5. Die Deutsch-amerikanischen Wahlverwandtschaften: An Attempt at a Social Novel. Excursus I. The Emergence of the German Western: Balduin Mollhausen and Friedrich Armand Strubberg
• Pt. II. Mimesis: Friedrich Gerstacker. 6. The Revealed Vocation. 7. The Multicultural Bear Hunt: An Introduction to Gerstacker's Narrative Devices. 8. Gerstacker's America: Social and Political Observations. 9. The Immigration Trilogy: Nach Amerika!, Gold!, In Amerika. Excursus II. Anti-Americanism? Talvj, Ferdinand Kurnberger, Reinhold Solger.

ISBN

080788121X (alk. paper)

LCCN

97048282

OCLC

38030228

RCP

C - S

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