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History, fiction, and Germany : writing the nineteenth-century nation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peterson, Brent Orlyn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2005]
Series:Kritik (Detroit, Mich.)
Subjects:
German literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Historical fiction, German > History and criticism.
National characteristics, German, in literature.
National characteristics, German > History > 19th century.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • How Prussian heroes came to dominate Germany's national narrative
  • The past as history and fiction
  • Caste and regional identities
  • From Frederick the Great to Old Fritz
  • Explaining Jena
  • The German people arise, and marry
  • The myth of a common past.