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Choose not these Vices

Social Reality in the German Novel 1618-1848

Alfred Douglas White (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

234 Seiten

2005
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-03910-312-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.3.2005
Reihe/Serie	German Linguistic and Cultural Studies ; 16
Verlagsort	Bern
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 220 mm
Gewicht	350 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Germanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	1618 • 1848 • Alfred • choose • Deutsch • Douglas • German • Geschichte 1618-1848 • Gesellschaftsroman • Goethe, Johann W. von • Grimmelshausen, Hans Jakob Christoffel von • Hardcover, Softcover / Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft, Deutschsprachige Literaturwi • HC/Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft, Deutschsprachige Literaturwissenschaft • Keller, Gottfried • LaRoche, Sophie von • lutzeier • Novel • Peter • Reality • Reuter, Fritz • Rolf • Social • Vices • White
ISBN-10	3-03910-312-1 / 3039103121
ISBN-13	978-3-03910-312-6 / 9783039103126
Zustand	Neuware