Theodor Fontane: The Major Novels (Anglica Germanica Series 2) - Hardcover

Bance, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052124532X ISBN 13: 9780521245326

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1982

Synopsis

This 1982 book examines the novels of Theodor Fontane, one of the most important German novelists of the nineteenth century. He has been well served by English translations and is now regarded as a writer of international standing. Professor Bance begins by setting Fontane's work in the context of nineteenth-century Europe in general, and Germany in particular, which was struggling with its late modernization. The increasing materialism of modern industrial society found its literary correlative in the rise of prose fiction to supplant poetry as the predominant literary mode. Fontane's career reflects this development: beginning as a writer of ballads and balladesque novels, he gradually developed into a realistic novelist capable of treating the most complex social relations. Professor Bance argues that Fontane's œuvre can be seen in terms of a tension between a desire to present the facts and a desire to assert some transcendent poetic truth.

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Book Description:

In this 1982 book, Professor Bance sets the novels of Theodor Fontane in the context of nineteenth-century Europe in order to demonstrate that his œouvre can be seen in terms of a tension between a desire to present the facts and a desire to assert some transcendent poetic truth.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 052124532X
• ISBN 13: 9780521245326
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272