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Autore: | Scholz Williams Gerhild <1942-> |
Titolo: | Mediating culture in the seventeenth-century German novel : Eberhard Werner Happel, 1647-1690 / / Gerhild Scholz Williams |
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.: | 9910810545403321 |
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