Mediating culture in the seventeenth-century German novel : Eberhard Werner Happel, 1647-1690 / / Gerhild Scholz Williams

• Autore: Scholz Williams Gerhild <1942->
• Pubblicazione: Ann Arbor : , : The University of Michigan Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
• Disciplina: 833/.5
• Soggetto topico: German literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; German fiction - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism; German literature - Social aspects - History - 17th century; Heroes in literature; National characteristics, German, in literature; Gender identity in literature; East and West in literature
• Classificazione: LIT004170HIS014000HIS037040
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Mediating culture in the seventeenth-century German novel
• ISBN: 0-472-12010-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791039603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II