Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Editions
- Introduction: Fontane in the Twenty–First Century
- 1 Narrative Digression and the Transformation of Nationhood in Vor dem Sturm
- 2 Nasty Women: Female Anger as Moral Judgment in Grete Minde and Effi Briest
- 3 Performing the Philistine: Gossip as a Narrative Device and a Strategy for Reflection on Anti-Semitism in Theodor Fontane's L'Adultera
- 4 To Have an Eye: Visual Culture and the Misapprehension of Class in Irrungen, Wirrungen
- 5 Fontane as a Pacifist? The Antiwar Message in Quitt (1890) and Fontane's Changing Attitude to Militarism
- 6 Disjunctive Transnationalisms in Fontane's Frau Jenny Treibel
- 7 On the “Right Measure” in Effi Briest: Ethics and Aesthetics of the Prosaic
- 8 Transfiguration, Effect, and Engagement: Theodor Fontane's Aesthetic Thought
- 9 Fontane and World Literature: Prussians, Jews, and the Specter of Africa in Die Poggenpuhls
- 10 Von Zwanzig bis Dreißig: The Male Author in Parts
- 11 Melusine von Barby's Barriers and Connections in Fontane's Der Stechlin
- 12 Senescence and Fontane's Der Stechlin
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2019
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Editions
- Introduction: Fontane in the Twenty–First Century
- 1 Narrative Digression and the Transformation of Nationhood in Vor dem Sturm
- 2 Nasty Women: Female Anger as Moral Judgment in Grete Minde and Effi Briest
- 3 Performing the Philistine: Gossip as a Narrative Device and a Strategy for Reflection on Anti-Semitism in Theodor Fontane's L'Adultera
- 4 To Have an Eye: Visual Culture and the Misapprehension of Class in Irrungen, Wirrungen
- 5 Fontane as a Pacifist? The Antiwar Message in Quitt (1890) and Fontane's Changing Attitude to Militarism
- 6 Disjunctive Transnationalisms in Fontane's Frau Jenny Treibel
- 7 On the “Right Measure” in Effi Briest: Ethics and Aesthetics of the Prosaic
- 8 Transfiguration, Effect, and Engagement: Theodor Fontane's Aesthetic Thought
- 9 Fontane and World Literature: Prussians, Jews, and the Specter of Africa in Die Poggenpuhls
- 10 Von Zwanzig bis Dreißig: The Male Author in Parts
- 11 Melusine von Barby's Barriers and Connections in Fontane's Der Stechlin
- 12 Senescence and Fontane's Der Stechlin
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
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- Fontane in the Twenty-First Century , pp. v - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2019