"This volume examines the circulation and adaptation of German culture in the United States during the so-called long nineteenth century - the century of mass G

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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 receptio

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In the 19th Century, economic growth was accompanied by large-scale structural change, known as industrialization, which fundamentally affected western societie