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Austria as it is
"First published in London in 1827 as an authentic travelogue; the author employed a combination of history and anecdote to show an English-speaking readership how oppressive the Austrian regime under Francis I and his Prime Minister Metternich had become." -- Page [4] cover.
The life and works of Charles Sealsfield (Karl Postl), 1793-1864
This book, with contributions in both German and English, investigates the life story, and the manifold interests and achievements, of one of the most enigmatic writers of the nineteenth century. Karl Postl was the son of an Austrian bourgeois family, a Catholic cleric who was caught up in the resistance to the post-Napoleonic restoration. In 1823 he exiled himself from his name and his homeland. A restless traveler through the Americas, a much-read literary critic, a social visionary, and a sometime diplomatic courier for the exiled Bonparte family, Karl Postl became “Charles Sealsfield, Citizen of the United States, Clergyman, Native of Pennsylvania.” His literary reputation never really faded even though tastes have changed many times. His search for common human traits in the political and social systems of Europe and the Americas has been relevant through the last 150 years. Quite apart from the literary merits of his works, his dispassionate observations on non-European races and their customs and aspirations have aroused the interest of scholars in the academic disciplines of anthropology and ethnic history.
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Understanding Charles Sealsfield, Understanding America
"This work explores the literary phenomenon of Charles Sealsfield, known throughout much of his career as "the Great Unknown" and for a brief time as "the Greatest American Author." Sealsfield, a runaway Moravian monk, living in permanent disguise, reinvented himself as an American author and the self-proclaimed founder of a new novel form and, despite publishing works both in English and in German, has been relegated to a marginalized, if not forgotten, place in the American canon and a constricted place in the German canon. This study examines his fiction and travel books, as well as his correspondence, and strives for a reassessment of his achievement in both canons"--
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Europe's Indians, Indians in Europe
Europe's Indians, Indians in Europe is an accessible and multidisciplinary synopsis of European iconographies and cultural narratives related to Native Americans. In this pioneering work, European fascination with and phantasmagorias of 'Indianness' are comprehensively discussed, involving perspectives of history, literature, and cultural criticism. Topics range from so-called Pocahontas, paraded as an exotic souvenir princess in front of seventeenth-century Londoners, to Native Americans touring Europe as show token Indians with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in the late nineteenth-century. European strategies of playing Indian include German dime novel artisan Karl May (1842-1912) and his l...
