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Imperial fictions : German literature before and beyond the nation-state /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kontje, Todd Curtis, 1954- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2018]
Series:Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
Subjects:
German literature > History and criticism.
German literature > Europe, German-speaking > History and criticism.
Imperialism in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
National characteristics, German, in literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • National origins and the imperial past
  • German literary history and the medieval renaissance
  • Silesian patriots and imperial subjects
  • Goethe and the end of the Holy Roman Empire
  • Romantic nationalism and imperial nostalgia
  • Worldly provincialism in imperial Germany
  • Collapsing empires and nascent nations
  • Revisiting the Heimat after the Third Reich
  • Popular fiction and the imperial past
  • Conclusion : national literature in an era of world literature.