This 1982 book examines the novels of Theodor Fontane, one of the
most important German novelists of the nineteenth century. He has
been well served by English translations and is now regarded as a
writer of international standing. Professor Bance begins by setting
Fontane's work in the context of nineteenth-century Europe in
general, and Germany in particular, which was struggling with its
late modernization. The increasing materialism of modern industrial
society found its literary correlative in the rise of prose fiction
to supplant poetry as the predominant literary mode. Fontane's
career reflects this development: beginning as a writer of ballads
and balladesque novels, he gradually developed into a realistic
novelist capable of treating the most complex social relations.
Professor Bance argues that Fontane's oeuvre can be seen in terms
of a tension between a desire to present the facts and a desire to
assert some transcendent poetic truth.
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