This DLB volumes coverage begins during a period when two contrasting political tendencies had major influence over German authors and the literature they produced-the conservative Biedermeier, on the one hand, and the liberal Junges Deutschland (Young Germany) and Vormarz (Pre-March), on the other. The Beidermeier writers emphasized middle-class values and virtues such as family, home and community. The other two groups voiced controversial opinions on topical issues of the day. The volume also includes coverage of the ...
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This DLB volumes coverage begins during a period when two contrasting political tendencies had major influence over German authors and the literature they produced-the conservative Biedermeier, on the one hand, and the liberal Junges Deutschland (Young Germany) and Vormarz (Pre-March), on the other. The Beidermeier writers emphasized middle-class values and virtues such as family, home and community. The other two groups voiced controversial opinions on topical issues of the day. The volume also includes coverage of the witers who represented the switch to realism, the style that dominated the second half of nineteenth century German literature. 42 ENTRIES INCLUDE: Felix Dahn, Theodor Fontane, Friedrich Hebbel, Friedrich Spielhagen, Max Stirner, Richard Wagner, Adolf Von Wilbrandt.
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Add this copy of Nineteenth-Century German Writers, 1841-1900; to cart. $36.00, very good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by Gale Research / A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book.
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Near Fine. First edition, 1993. Cloth hardcover, 533 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, light foxing to the page-edges, no dust jacket. No ownership marks, but this was Editorial Director Matthew J. Bruccoli's copy. Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1931-2008) was the foremost F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar and bibliographer of his time. Additionally, he wrote on, and edited critical editions of Hemingway, Hammett, Cozzens, Thomas Wolfe, John O'Hara, and Vladimir Nabokov. He studied bibliography under the tutelage of Fredson Bowers and worked with Jacob Blanck on the Bibliography of American Literature. He was responsible for the republication and rediscovery of dozens of forgotten American novels, and went on to be the editor and publisher of the 400+ volume Dictionary of Literary Biography, and was the chief editor of the University of Pittsburgh Press bibliography series.
