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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
Siegfried the Wrestler
:
The Wilhelmine World of a Colportage Novel
Contains:
Frontmatter
Contents
Part One
1. Three Readers: George Grosz, Moritz Bromme, Adelheid Popp
2. For and Against Popular Literature
3. Enter Siegfried the Wrestler
4. Wrestling
5. National and Ethnic Stereotypes
6. Current Events and Sensation
7. Class Conflict: Siegfried as Peacemaker
8. Wilhelmine Women and their Wrestler
9. The Contradictions of Colportage: Paternalism and Populism
10. Postscript: Heinrich Büttner’s First Colportage Novel of 1892
Part Two
The Illustrations
Notes
Description:
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