Fontane in the Twenty-First Century

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Volume 201
Edited by John B. Lyon, Brian Tucker

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: August 2019
Print publication year:: 2019
Online ISBN:: 9781787444669
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787444669

Subjects:: Literature, Literary Texts
Series:: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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Assesses the relevance of the works of Fontane, perhaps the foremost German novelist between Goethe and Mann, for the twenty-first century.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgments
pp vii-viii

Note on Editions
pp ix-x

Introduction: Fontane in the Twenty–First Century
pp 1-11

1 - Narrative Digression and the Transformation of Nationhood in Vor dem Sturm
pp 12-30

2 - Nasty Women: Female Anger as Moral Judgment in Grete Minde and Effi Briest
pp 31-47

3 - Performing the Philistine: Gossip as a Narrative Device and a Strategy for Reflection on Anti-Semitism in Theodor Fontane's L'Adultera
pp 48-62

4 - To Have an Eye: Visual Culture and the Misapprehension of Class in Irrungen, Wirrungen
pp 63-83

5 - Fontane as a Pacifist? The Antiwar Message in Quitt (1890) and Fontane's Changing Attitude to Militarism
pp 84-102

6 - Disjunctive Transnationalisms in Fontane's Frau Jenny Treibel
pp 103-120

7 - On the “Right Measure” in Effi Briest: Ethics and Aesthetics of the Prosaic
pp 121-141

8 - Transfiguration, Effect, and Engagement: Theodor Fontane's Aesthetic Thought
pp 142-160

9 - Fontane and World Literature: Prussians, Jews, and the Specter of Africa in Die Poggenpuhls
pp 161-184

10 - Von Zwanzig bis Dreißig: The Male Author in Parts
pp 185-212

11 - Melusine von Barby's Barriers and Connections in Fontane's Der Stechlin
pp 213-231

12 - Senescence and Fontane's Der Stechlin
pp 232-246

Notes on the Contributors
pp 247-250

Index
pp 251-256

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