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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Main Author: Fisher, Peter S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2023
Edition:1st ed
Series:Lettre
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Online Access:DE-B1533
DE-860
DE-859
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Summary: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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (136 Seiten) 889 MB 34 SW-Abbildungen, 5 Farbabbildungen
ISBN:9783839466919

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