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Letters have long been an outlet for political expression, whether
they articulate the personal politics of the daily routine or the
political views of individuals who witness or participate in
dramatic events. In addition, letters can be unusually revealing
records of the relations between men and women. Though letters have
frequently been studied as a privileged space for literary, social,
and cultural expression, the three-dimensional relationship of
politics, gender, and letters has not been the focus of an entire
volume. The nineteen essays in this collection examine how the
gendered nature of political literacy is revealed over a 250-year
period through letter writing, whether the writer is famous or
unknown, the wife of a prominent politician or activist, a
political prisoner or political militant. Ranging wide in terms of
subject matter and geography, the contributors examine
correspondence that ponders familial concerns, as well as letters
providing political commentary on the effects of war or revolution
on everyday life. Among the impressive group of international
scholars are Jim Allen, Clare Brant, Edith Gelles, Jane Rendall,
and SiAcn Reynolds.
Letters have long been an outlet for political expression, whether
they articulate the personal politics of the daily routine or the
political views of individuals who witness or participate in
dramatic events. In addition, letters can be unusually revealing
records of the relations between men and women. Though letters have
frequently been studied as a privileged space for literary, social,
and cultural expression, the three-dimensional relationship of
politics, gender, and letters has not been the focus of an entire
volume. The nineteen essays in this collection examine how the
gendered nature of political literacy is revealed over a 250-year
period through letter writing, whether the writer is famous or
unknown, the wife of a prominent politician or activist, a
political prisoner or political militant. Ranging wide in terms of
subject matter and geography, the contributors examine
correspondence that ponders familial concerns, as well as letters
providing political commentary on the effects of war or revolution
on everyday life. Among the impressive group of international
scholars are Jim Allen, Clare Brant, Edith Gelles, Jane Rendall,
and SiAcn Reynolds.
A much-needed look at the fiction that was actually read by masses
of Germans in the late nineteenth century, and the conditions of
its publication and reception. The late nineteenth century was a
crucial period for the development of German fiction. Political
unification and industrialization were accompanied by the rise of a
mass market for German literature, and with it the beginnings ofthe
German bestseller.Offering escape, romance, or adventure, as well
as insights into the modern world, nineteenth-century bestsellers
often captured the imagination of readers well into the twentieth
century and beyond. However, many have been neglected by scholars.
This volume offers new readings of literary realism by focusing not
on the accepted intellectual canon but on commercially successful
fiction in its material and social contexts. It investigates
bestsellers from writers such as Freytag, Dahn, Jensen, Raabe,
Viebig, Stifter, Auerbach, Storm, Moellhausen, Marlitt, Suttner,
and Thomas Mann. The contributions examine the aesthetic strategies
that made the works sucha success, and writers' attempts to appeal
simultaneously on different levels to different readers.
Bestselling writers often sought to accommodate the expectations of
publishers and the marketplace, while preserving some sense
ofartistic integrity. This volume sheds light on the important
effect of the mass market on the writing not just of popular works,
but of German prose fiction on all levels. Contributors: Christiane
Arndt, Caroline Bland, Elizabeth Boa, Anita Bunyan, Katrin Kohl,
Todd Kontje, Peter C. Pfeiffer, Nicholas Saul, Benedict Schofield,
Ernest Schonfield, Martin Swales, Charlotte Woodford. Charlotte
Woodford is Lecturer in German and Directorof Studies in Modern
Languages at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. Benedict
Schofield is Senior Lecturer in German and Head of the Department
of German at King's College London.
Although Prussia's beloved Queen Luise and the Swiss-born
aristocrat and writer Germaine de Stael were Napoleon Bonaparte's
best-known female opponents, women's discontent with Napoleon and
the Napoleonic wars was more widespread - and vocal - than once
assumed. "Women Against Napoleon" expands our awareness of the
range of women's responses to the despot by presenting an
international spectrum of female opposition, including contemporary
letters, diaries, and published writings, as well as historical
fiction of the twentieth century. By juxtaposing analyses of these
materials, this volume forges new links between literary,
historical, and gender scholarship.
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