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

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 (18...

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Main Author: Sammons, Jeffrey L. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 1998
Series:UNC Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures 121
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