HANS J. RINDISBACHER is Professor of German Studies at Pomona College, California. JEFFREY L. SAMMONS is Professor Emeritus, Yale University THOMAS C. FOX is Professor of German at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Stated Memory: East Germany and the Holocaust (Camden House, 1999) and co-editor of Companion to the Works of Lessing (Camden House, 2005).

This outstanding collection of essays on the writing of this period provides an excellent overview of this great age of fiction. The contributors are among the very best of German literary critics....

• Introduction: Reawakening German Realism - Todd KontjeAdalbert Stifter's Brigitta, or the Lesson of Realism - Robert C. HolubMühlbach, Ranke, and the Truth of Historical Fiction - Brent O. Peterson"In the Heart of the Heart of the Country": Regional Histories as National History in Gustav Freytag's Die Ahnen (1872-80)(1872-80) - A Woman's Post: Gender and Nation in Historical Fiction by Louise von François - Thomas C. FoxFriedrich Spielhagen: The Demon of Theory and the Decline of Reputation - Jeffrey L SammonsWilhelm Raabe and the German Colonial Experience - John PizerFrom National Task to Individual Pursuit: The Poetics of Work in Freytag, Stifter, and Raabe - Hans J. RindisbacherDas Republikanische, das Demokratische, das Pantheistische: Jewish Identity in Berthold Auerbach's Novels - Irene Stocksiecker Di MaioE. Marlitt: Narratives of Virtuous Desire - Kirsten BelgumThe Appeal of Karl May in the Wilhelmine Empire: Emigration, Modernization, and the Need for Heroes - Nina BermanMaking Way for the Third Sex: Liberal and Antiliberal Impulses in Mann's Portrayal of Male-Male Desire in His Early Short Fiction - Robert TobinEffi Briest and the End of Realism - Russell A. Berman

HANS J. RINDISBACHER is Professor of German Studies at Pomona College, California. JEFFREY L. SAMMONS is Professor Emeritus, Yale University THOMAS C. FOX is Professor of German at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Stated Memory: East Germany and the Holocaust (Camden House, 1999) and co-editor of Companion to the Works of Lessing (Camden House, 2005).

This outstanding collection of essays on the writing of this period provides an excellent overview of this great age of fiction. The contributors are among the very best of German literary critics....

• Introduction: Reawakening German Realism - Todd KontjeAdalbert Stifter's Brigitta, or the Lesson of Realism - Robert C. HolubMühlbach, Ranke, and the Truth of Historical Fiction - Brent O. Peterson"In the Heart of the Heart of the Country": Regional Histories as National History in Gustav Freytag's Die Ahnen (1872-80)(1872-80) - A Woman's Post: Gender and Nation in Historical Fiction by Louise von François - Thomas C. FoxFriedrich Spielhagen: The Demon of Theory and the Decline of Reputation - Jeffrey L SammonsWilhelm Raabe and the German Colonial Experience - John PizerFrom National Task to Individual Pursuit: The Poetics of Work in Freytag, Stifter, and Raabe - Hans J. RindisbacherDas Republikanische, das Demokratische, das Pantheistische: Jewish Identity in Berthold Auerbach's Novels - Irene Stocksiecker Di MaioE. Marlitt: Narratives of Virtuous Desire - Kirsten BelgumThe Appeal of Karl May in the Wilhelmine Empire: Emigration, Modernization, and the Need for Heroes - Nina BermanMaking Way for the Third Sex: Liberal and Antiliberal Impulses in Mann's Portrayal of Male-Male Desire in His Early Short Fiction - Robert TobinEffi Briest and the End of Realism - Russell A. Berman

HANS J. RINDISBACHER is Professor of German Studies at Pomona College, California. JEFFREY L. SAMMONS is Professor Emeritus, Yale University THOMAS C. FOX is Professor of German at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Stated Memory: East Germany and the Holocaust (Camden House, 1999) and co-editor of Companion to the Works of Lessing (Camden House, 2005).

This outstanding collection of essays on the writing of this period provides an excellent overview of this great age of fiction. The contributors are among the very best of German literary critics....

• Introduction: Reawakening German Realism - Todd KontjeAdalbert Stifter's Brigitta, or the Lesson of Realism - Robert C. HolubMühlbach, Ranke, and the Truth of Historical Fiction - Brent O. Peterson"In the Heart of the Heart of the Country": Regional Histories as National History in Gustav Freytag's Die Ahnen (1872-80)(1872-80) - A Woman's Post: Gender and Nation in Historical Fiction by Louise von François - Thomas C. FoxFriedrich Spielhagen: The Demon of Theory and the Decline of Reputation - Jeffrey L SammonsWilhelm Raabe and the German Colonial Experience - John PizerFrom National Task to Individual Pursuit: The Poetics of Work in Freytag, Stifter, and Raabe - Hans J. RindisbacherDas Republikanische, das Demokratische, das Pantheistische: Jewish Identity in Berthold Auerbach's Novels - Irene Stocksiecker Di MaioE. Marlitt: Narratives of Virtuous Desire - Kirsten BelgumThe Appeal of Karl May in the Wilhelmine Empire: Emigration, Modernization, and the Need for Heroes - Nina BermanMaking Way for the Third Sex: Liberal and Antiliberal Impulses in Mann's Portrayal of Male-Male Desire in His Early Short Fiction - Robert TobinEffi Briest and the End of Realism - Russell A. Berman