Choose not these Vices

Social Reality in the German Novel 1618-1848

AvAlfred Douglas White,Peter Rolf Lutzeier

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

Del 16 i serien German Linguistic and Cultural Studies

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Beskrivning

From the late seventeenth century into the eighteenth, critics and authors in Germany defended the novel: indeed it depicted vice and immorality, but only with the intention of exhorting the reader to avoid such dangers to the soul. This book examines outstanding novels of life from the Thirty Years’ War to the Vormärz, mostly written with this real or apparent moral aim, and evaluates them as documents of social history. The author finds that concepts of truth and plausibility are different in the early modern period. Initial and closing chapters deal with French novels, showing how approaches to society differ across national cultures.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-03-23
Mått:150 x 220 x 15 mm
Vikt:350 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:German Linguistic and Cultural Studies
Antal sidor:234
Förlag:Verlag Peter Lang
ISBN:9783039103126

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The Author: Professor Alfred D. White, M.A., DPhil (Oxon) has lectured in German at Cardiff University since 1966 and is Director of Studies in German there. His previous publications include The One-Eyed Man: Social Reality in the German Novel 1848-1968, in this series, as well as books on Frisch, Brecht and Storm, and articles on expressionist literature and modernism.

Innehållsförteckning

Contents: Social history, everyday history and history of mentalities, exemplified in German and French novels, seventeenth to nineteenth centuries: Sorel, Grimmelshausen, Christian Reuter, Der Sächsische Robinson, Schnabel, Gellert, La Roche, Nicolai, Goethe, Jean Paul, Tieck, Gotthelf, Keller, Balzac – Distinguishing historical evidence from fantasy.