Ecology and German realism : poetics, politics, and the conquest of nature /
"Shows, contrary to the traditional view, that the major authors of German literary realism not only thematized environmental transformation but that it was central to their aesthetics. In nineteenth-century Europe, and particularly in Germany, the industrial revolution led to air and water pol...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Rochester, New York :
Camden House, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer,
2025.
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| Series: | Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture ;
v. 251. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Industrialization, Environmental Degradation, and the Aesthetics of Realism
- Environmental Counterfictions: The Ethical Domination of Nature in Adalbert Stifter
- The Styx Flows through Arcadia: Environmental Depredation and Aesthetic Reflection in Wilhelm Raabe's Late Fiction
- Hydrologic Engineering, Social Change, and the Persistence of the Fantastic in Theodor Storm's Der Schimmelreiter
- The Poetics of an Emerging Anthropocene: Theodor Fontane's Der Stechlin
- Conclusion: The Nature of Realism.