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German? American? Literature?
More than 25,000 German-language titles have been published in the United States from the colonial period to the twentieth century. This book gives a fresh look at this rich historical tradition, with essays discussing all genres of this colorful literature, ranging from immigrant letters to experimental German-language poetry by Jewish women, from German-American novelists and playwrights to Austrian refugee publishers and a psychological theorist of the movies. German? American? Literature? reintroduces the modern reader to a fascinating subject that has gained new relevance in an age of increased global migrations.
Socialism in German American Literature
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Images of Germany in American Literature
Starting with the notion of Germany as the ideal site for academic study and travel in the 19th century and concluding with the twentieth-century image of Germany as an aggressive country, this work examines the everchanging image of Germans and Germany in the writings of Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, William James, John Dewey, among others.
Other Witnesses
The unique perspective of the "other witnesses" included here--that of immigrant outsiders, foreigners who wrote primarily for a minority-language group in the United States--provides the reader with a new understanding of this important period of America's growth and development. Included are works by Christian Essellen, Reinhold Solger, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, Theodor Kirchhoff, Udo Brachvogel, Robert Reitzel, Julius Gugler, Edna Fern, Lotte Leser, and others: plays, short stories, and poems, as well as selections from novels, essays, and memoirs. Some of the texts have never appeared in book form, and still others are published here for the first time. Introductory essays to each chapter provide background information and point the way for further research. The volume will be a welcome addition to the collections of institutional libraries, historians, and Germanists alike.
Tales of Berlin in American Literature up to the 21st Century
Of all European cities, Americans today are perhaps most curious about Berlin, whose position in the American imagination is an essential component of nineteenth-century, postwar and contemporary transatlantic imagology. Over various periods, Berlin has been a tenuous space for American claims to cultural heritage and to real geographic space in Europe, symbolizing the ultimate evil and the power of redemption. This volume offers a comprehensive examination of the city’s image in American literature from 1840 to the present. Tracing both a history of Berlin and of American culture through the ways the city has been narrated across three centuries by some 100 authors through 145 novels, short stories, plays and poems, Tales of Berlin presents a composite landscape not only of the German capital, but of shifting subtexts in American society which have contextualized its meaning for Americans in the past, and continue to do so today.
Socialism in German American Literature
Excerpt from Socialism in German American Literature: A Thesis to the Faculty of the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy In this monograph the writer has endeavored to trace in out-line the introduction, dissemination, and development of German socialistic ideas in the United States from about 1835, to recent years, and to show their influence on German American literature. It begins by showing their influence on certain communistic experiments, labor organizations, and socialist political parties. Until about 1890 German immigrants were the chief heralds and disseminators of modern socialistic ideas in the United States. Since th...
A New History of German Literature
'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.
Twice Removed
This pioneering study of immigrant literature probes the effect which the double status of German-American women writers - as immigrants and as women - had on their professional lives. The author recreates the fascinating cultural context of the immigrant society during the «golden age» of its literary tradition, 1850-1890, emphasizing the sociological, economic, historical and psychological variables shaping women's professional opportunities and literary production. Dr. Stuecher's analysis creates for the first time a framework in which to understand the literary lives of immigrant women writers.
