Private Lives and Collective Destinies

Private Lives and Collective Destinies
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Total Pages : 230
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ISBN-10 : 9781907322228
ISBN-13 : 1907322221
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Book Synopsis Private Lives and Collective Destinies by : Benedict Schofield

Download or read book Private Lives and Collective Destinies written by Benedict Schofield and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2012 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century Germany witnessed many debates on the nature of the nation, both before and after unification in 1871. Bourgeois authors engaged closely with questions of class and national identity, and resourcefully sought to influence the collective destiny of the German people through works of popular fiction and cultural history. Typical of this trend was the realist writer Gustav Freytag (1816-1895), the most widely read novelist of his era. Innovatively exploring all of Freytag's works (poetry, drama, novels, history, journalism, biography and literary theory), Schofield examines how his popular writing systematically re-imagined the social structures of German society, embedding political agendas within contemporary stories of private lives. Connecting the aesthetics of Realism with the political aims of the bourgeoisie, the study both reassesses Freytag's position within the German literary canon and re-evaluates received opinion on the socio-political function of Realism in German culture. Benedict Schofield is Lecturer in German at King's College London.


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