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    Ideology, Mimesis, Fantasy

    Charles Sealsfield, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Karl May, and Other German Novelists of America

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    Author(s)
    Sammons, Jeffrey L.
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    This study of German fiction about America in the nineteenth century concentrates in detail on three writers: Charles Sealsfield (Carl Postl, 1793–1864), an escaped Moravian monk who came to New Orleans in 1823 and wrote the first major German novels about the United States; Friedrich Gerstäcker (1816–1872), who, among his many experiences in America as a young man, lived as a backwoodsman in Arkansas and who later produced a large body of fiction, travel reportage, and emigration advice; and Karl May (1842–1912), who, though he knew nothing about America beyond what he could read in books, wrote famous adventure stories set in an imaginary West and became the best-selling writer in the German language. Sammons provides biographies of the authors and discusses how each differs in their mimetic and ideological approach. He pays particular attention to how the authors address issues of race, gender and politics in the United States. Sammons interweaves his discussion of these three writers with excurses into the emergence of the German Western and anti-Americanism in German fiction.
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39869
    Keywords
    German literature; Literary criticism
    DOI
    10.5149/9781469656717_Sammons
    Publisher
    University of North Carolina Press
    Publisher website
    https://uncpress.org/
    Publication date and place
    Chapel Hill, 1998
    Grantor
    • National Endowment for the Humanities - [grantnumber unknown] - Humanities Open Book Program
    • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - [grantnumber unknown] - Humanities Open Book Program
    Series
    UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures, 121
    Classification
    Literature: history and criticism
    Pages
    360
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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