German Bestseller in the Late Nineteenth Century

Benedict Schofield is Reader in German at King's College London. Benedict Schofield is Reader in German at King's College London.

• Introduction: German Fiction and the Marketplace in the Nineteenth Century - Charlotte WoodfordGustav Freytag's Soll und Haben: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Bestseller - Benedict SchofieldFelix Dahn's Ein Kampf um Rom: Historical Fiction as Melodrama - Todd KontjeWilhelm Jensen and Wilhelm Raabe: Literary Value, Evolutionary Aesthetics, and Competition in the Marketplace - Nicholas SaulClara Viebig: Using the Genres of Heimatkunst und Großstadtroman to Create Bestselling Novels - Caroline BlandBuddenbrooks as Bestseller - Ernest SchonfieldHomeliness and Otherness: Reflections on Stifter's Bergkristall - Martin SwalesBerthold Auerbach's Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten: Political and Religious Contexts of a Nineteenth-Century Bestseller - Anita BunyanTheodor Storm's Der Schimmelreiter: Schauerralismus or Gothic Realism in the Family Periodical - Christiane ArndtSelling the Experience of the New World: Balduin Möllhausen's Novellistic Imagination of America - Peter PfeifferE. Marlitt's Bestselling Poetics - Katrin KohlBertha von Suttner's Die Waffen nieder! and Gabriele Reuter's Aus guter Familie: Sentimentality and Social Criticism - Charlotte WoodfordTaking Sex to Market: Tagebuch einer Verlorenen: Von einerToten and Josefine Mutzenbacher, Die Lebensgeschichte einer wienerischen Dirne, von ihr selbst erzählt - Elizabeth BoaWorks CitedNotes on the ContributorsIndex

[T]akes a fresh and highly productive look at German best-selling novels and novellas written between the 1840s and the early 1900s. It combines sociohistorical enquiry into the history of literary writing, publishing, and reading with a particular focus on 'the fertile crossover between so-called high literature and works written for the mass market.' . . . The twelve chapters . . . written by established Germanists as well as younger researchers, are well researched and thoughtful almost throughout. Many are highly successful in combining socio-historical enquiry with in-depth literary analysis. --Dirk Göttsche,