Ideology, Mimesis, Fantasy

Charles Sealsfield, Friedrich GerstÃ¤cker, Karl May, and Other German Novelists of America

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Jeffrey L Sammons

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Paperback / softback

Series:

University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature

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This study of German fiction about America in the nineteenth century concentrates in detail on three writers: Charles Sealsfield (Carl Postl, 1793-1864), an escaped Moravian monk who came to New Orleans in 1823 and wrote the first major German novels about the United States; Friedrich Gerstacker (1816-1872), who, among his many experiences in America as a young man, lived as a backwoodsman in Arkansas and who later produced a large body of fiction, travel reportage, and emigration advice; and Karl May (1842-1912), who, though he knew nothing about America beyond what he could read in books, wrote famous adventure stories set in an imaginary West and became the best-selling writer in the German language. Sammons provides biographies of the authors and discusses how each differs in their mimetic and ideological approach. He pays particular attention to how the authors address issues of race, gender and politics in the United States. Sammons interweaves his discussion of these three writers with excurses into the emergence of the German Western and anti-Americanism in German fiction.

Release date NZ

May 30th, 2020

Author

Jeffrey L Sammons

Series

University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature

Pages

360

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

ISBN-13

9781469656700

Product ID

31980120

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