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Record Nr.

UNINA9911026038403321

Autore

Fisher Peter S <p>Peter S. Fisher, USA </p>

Titolo

Siegfried the Wrestler : The Wilhelmine World of a Colportage Novel / Peter S. Fisher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2023

ISBN

9783839466919

9783837666915

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (137 pages)

Collana

Lettre

Disciplina

266.0092

Soggetti

Popular Literature

Popular Culture

Colportage Novel

Germany

Cultural History

German Empire

Nineteenth Century

Twentieth Century

Literature

Media

German Literature

Gender Studies

German History

Literary Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Part One -- 1. Three Readers: George Grosz, Moritz Bromme, Adelheid Popp -- 2. For and Against Popular Literature -- 3. Enter Siegfried the Wrestler -- 4. Wrestling -- 5. National and Ethnic Stereotypes -- 6. Current Events and Sensation -- 7. Class Conflict: Siegfried as Peacemaker -- 8. Wilhelmine Women and their Wrestler -- 9. The Contradictions of Colportage: Paternalism and Populism -- 10. Postscript: Heinrich Büttner's First Colportage Novel of 1892 -- Part Two -- The Illustrations -- 1A. Siegfried as Rescuer --



1B. -- 2. Siegfried the Wrestler -- 3A. Active Women -- 3B. -- 3C. -- 4A. Romantic Melodrama -- 4B. -- 4C. -- 5A. Luxury and Fancy Dresses -- 5B. -- 6A. Exotic Settings -- 6B. -- 6C. -- 7A. The Mob and Violence -- 7B. -- 7C. -- 8. Official Justice -- 9. Crime and Society -- 10. Trunks and Boxes -- 11. Antisemitism -- 12. Incongruous Illustrations -- 13. Serial Novel Wrapper Covers -- Notes -- Three Readers: George Grosz, Moritz Bromme, Adelheid Popp -- For and Against Popular Literature -- Enter Siegfried the Wrestler -- Wrestling -- National and Ethnic Stereotypes -- Current Events and Sensation -- Class Conflict: Siegfried as Peacemaker -- Wilhelmine Women and their Wrestler -- The Contradictions of Colportage: Paternalism and Populism -- Postscript: Heinrich Büttner's First Colportage Novel of 1892 -- The Illustrations.

Sommario/riassunto

Continually attacked by government officials and educators, installment or colportage novels fascinated their underprivileged readers. Melodrama and sensation were essential ingredients. The hurriedly written, rambling plots sought to electrify fantasies of women with new turn-of-the-century aspirations. They also fused raw political ideas offering populist and paternalist solutions to society's challenges and tensions. Through the study of one rare, surviving colportage novel, Peter S. Fisher offers an unusual mental and visual panorama of a nearly vanished Wilhelmine world.