Ideology, mimesis, fantasy Charles Sealsfield, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Karl May, and other German novelists of America Sammons, Jeffrey L. creator JSTOR (Organization) text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. ncu 1998 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (xiv, 342 pages) 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 (1816-1872), who, among his many experiences in America as a young man, lived as a backwoodsman in Arkansas and who later produced a large body of fiction, travel reportage, and emigration advice; and Karl May (1842-1912), who, though he knew nothing about America beyond what he could read in books, wrote famous adventure stories set in an imaginary West and became the best-selling writer in the German language. Sammons provides biographies of the authors and discusses how each differs in their mimetic and ideological approach. He pays particular attention to how the authors address issues of race, gender and politics in the United States. Sammons interweaves his discussion of these three writers with excurses into the emergence of the German Western and anti-Americanism in German fiction. pt. I. Ideology: Charles Sealsfield. 1. The Sealsfield Riddle. 2. What Is an Austrian Jacksonian? Sealsfield's Political Evolution from The Indian Chief (1829) to Der Legitime und die Republikaner (1833). 3. Slavery, Race, and Nation: The Antebellum Southern Context. 4. The Shape of Freedom in the Plantation Novels. 5. Die Deutsch-amerikanischen Wahlverwandtschaften: An Attempt at a Social Novel -- Excursus I. The Emergence of the German Western: Balduin Mollhausen and Friedrich Armand Strubberg -- part II. Mimesis: Friedrich Gerstacker. 6. The Revealed Vocation. 7. The Multicultural Bear Hunt: An Introduction to Gerstacker's Narrative Devices. 8. Gerstacker's America: Social and Political Observations. 9. The Immigration Trilogy: Nach Amerika!, Gold!, In Amerika -- Excursus II. Anti-Americanism? Talvj, Ferdinand Kurnberger, Reinhold Solger. Jeffrey L. Sammons. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-336) and index. e-gx--- n-us--- Gerstäcker, Friedrich 1816-1872 May, Karl 1842-1912 Postl, Karl 1793-1864 Deutsch Centro para la Promoción de la Conservación del Suelo y del Agua Andrae, A Sealsfield, Charles (1793-1864) Critique et interprétation Gerstacker, Friedrich (1816-1872) Critique et interprétation May, Karl (1842-1912) Critique et interprétation May, Karl Sealsfield, Charles Gerstäcker, Friedrich German fiction 19th century History and criticism America In literature LITERARY CRITICISM European German German fiction Literature America Amerikabild Geschichte Literatur USA Beeldvorming Letterkunde Duits Roman allemand 19e siècle Thèmes, motifs Roman allemand 19e siècle Histoire et critique Amérique Dans la littérature Deutsch 1800-1899 fast PT763 .S26 1998eb 833/.7093273 18.09 GL 1461 Ideology, mimesis, fantasy Sammons, Jeffrey L. Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 1998 (DLC) 97048282 (OCoLC)38030228 University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 121 9781469656717 146965671X 080788121X 9780807881217 9781469656700 1469656701 22573/ctv11p4gnm JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469656717_sammons JSTOR 200612 20220513221105.2 in00004575575 eng