E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm
Reihe: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
The European Novel and the German Book, 1680–1730
E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm
Reihe: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
ISBN: 978-0-8014-7698-3
Verlag: Cornell University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Into the eighteenth century, the modern German novel was not German at all; rather, it was French, as suggested by Germans' usage of the French word Roman to describe a wide variety of genres: pastoral romances, war and travel chronicles, heroic narratives, and courtly fictions. Carried in large part on the coattails of the Huguenot diaspora, these romans, nouvelles, amours secrets, histoires galantes, and histories scandaleuses shaped German literary culture to a previously unrecognized extent. Wiggin contends that this French chapter in the German novel's history began to draw to a close only in the 1720s, more than sixty years after the word first migrated into German. Only gradually did the Roman go native; it remained laden with the baggage from its "French" origins even into the nineteenth century.
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Introduction: "Little French books" and the European Novel
1. Fashion Restructures the Literary Field
2. Curing the French Disease
3. 1688: The Roman Becomes Both Poetical and Popular
4. 1696: Bringing the Roman to Market
Conclusion. Robinson Crusoe Sails on the European MarketBibliography
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