Siegfried the Wrestler: The Wilhelmine World of a Colportage Novel

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 aspirat...

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1. Verfasser: Fisher, Peter S. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2023
Ausgabe:1st ed
Schriftenreihe:Lettre
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Online-Zugang:DE-B1533
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (136 Seiten) 889 MB 34 SW-Abbildungen, 5 Farbabbildungen
ISBN:9783839466919

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