04424oam 2200733 450 991079103960332120161228113836.00-472-12010-710.3998/mpub.5911170(CKB)2550000001297222(EBL)4388356(SSID)ssj0001329615(PQKBManifestationID)11828656(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001329615(PQKBWorkID)11325813(PQKB)11245584(OCoLC)880170321(MdBmJHUP)muse38023(MiU)10.3998/mpub.5911170(Au-PeEL)EBL4388356(CaPaEBR)ebr10870878(CaONFJC)MIL608356(OCoLC)880413137(MiAaPQ)EBC4388356(EXLCZ)99255000000129722220131230d2013 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrMediating culture in the seventeenth-century German novel Eberhard Werner Happel, 1647-1690 /Gerhild Scholz WilliamsAnn Arbor :The University of Michigan Press,2013.1 online resource (265 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-472-11924-9 1-306-77105-6 Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.1. Setting the Stage -- 2. "The Court of Public Opinion" : Fictionalizing Encounters with Historical Heroes (Imre Thököly and Friedrich von Schomberg) -- 3. Dangerous Passage : Pirates, Robbers, Captives, and Slaves -- 4. Losing Direction : Romance and Gender Confusions."Eberhard Happel, Baroque German author of an extensive body of work of fiction and nonfiction, has for many years been categorized as a 'courtly-gallant' novelist. In Mediating Culture in the Seventeenth-Century German Novel, author Gerhild Scholz Williams argues that categorizing him thus is to seriously misread him and to miss out on a fascinating perspective on this dynamic period in German history. Happel primarily lived and worked in the vigorous port city of Hamburg, which was a 'media center' in terms of the access it offered to a wide library of books in public and private collections, and Hamburg's port status meant it buzzed with news and information. Happel's novels deal with many topics of current interest--explorations of national identity formation, gender and sexualities, Western European encounters with neighbors to the East, confrontations with non-European and non-Western powers and cultures--and they feature multiple media, including news reports, news collections, and travel writings. As a result, Happel's use of contemporary source material in his novels feeds the current interest in the impact of the production of knowledge on 17th-century narrative. Mediating Culture in the Seventeenth-Century German Novel explores the narrative wealth and multiversity of Happel's work, examines Happel's novels as illustrative of 17th-century novel writing in Germany, and investigates the synergistic relationship in Happel's writings between the booming print media industry and the evolution of the German novel"--Provided by publisher.German literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismGerman fictionEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismGerman literatureSocial aspectsHistory17th centuryHeroes in literatureNational characteristics, German, in literatureGender identity in literatureEast and West in literatureGerman literatureHistory and criticism.German fictionHistory and criticism.German literatureSocial aspectsHistoryHeroes in literature.National characteristics, German, in literature.Gender identity in literature.East and West in literature.833/.5LIT004170HIS014000HIS037040bisacshScholz Williams Gerhild1942-1547881Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)MiUMiUBOOK9910791039603321Mediating culture in the seventeenth-century German novel3804459UNINA