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1 online resource (xiii, 248 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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"Eberhard Happel, Baroque German author of an extensive body of work of fiction and nonfiction, has for many years been categorized as a 'courtly-gallant' novelist. In Mediating Culture in the Seventeenth-Century German Novel, author Gerhild Scholz Williams argues that categorizing him thus is to seriously misread him and to miss out on a fascinating perspective on this dynamic period in German history. Happel primarily lived and worked in the vigorous port city of Hamburg, which was a 'media center' in terms of the access it offered to a wide library of books in public and private collections, and Hamburg's port status meant it buzzed with news and information. Happel's novels deal with many topics of current interest--explorations of national identity formation, gender and sexualities, Western European encounters with neighbors to the East, confrontations with non-European and non-Western powers and cultures--and they feature multiple media, including news reports, news collections, and travel writings. As a result, Happel's use of contemporary source material in his novels feeds the current interest in the impact of the production of knowledge on 17th-century narrative. Mediating Culture in the Seventeenth-Century German Novel explores the narrative wealth and multiversity of Happel's work, examines Happel's novels as illustrative of 17th-century novel writing in Germany, and investigates the synergistic relationship in Happel's writings between the booming print media industry and the evolution of the German novel"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
List of Abbreviations -- Setting the Stage -- "The Court of Public Opinion" : Fictionalizing Encounters with Historical Heroes (Imre Thököly and Friedrich von Schomberg) -- Dangerous Passage : Pirates, Robbers, Captives, and Slaves -- Losing Direction : Romance and Gender Confusions. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Happel, Eberhard Werner, 1647-1690 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Happel, Eberhard Werner, 1647-1690. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Happel, Eberhard Werner, 1647-1690 -- Sources.
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Sources.
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Happel, Eberhard Werner, 1647-1690 -- Characters.
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German literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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German fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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German literature -- Social aspects -- History -- 17th century.
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German literature -- Social aspects. |
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History. |
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17th century |
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German literature. |
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Heroes in literature.
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National characteristics, German, in literature.
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Gender identity in literature.
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East and West in literature.
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Heroes in literature. |
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National characteristics, German, in literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German. |
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Gender identity in literature. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany. |
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East and West in literature. |
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 17th Century. |
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Characters and characteristics. |
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German fiction -- Early modern. |
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German literature -- Early modern. |
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1500-1700 |
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Scholz Williams, Gerhild, 1942- Mediating culture in the seventeenth-century German novel 0472120107 (DLC) 2013044601 |
| ISBN |
0472120107 (electronic book) |
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9780472120109 (electronic book) |
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9780472119240 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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0472119249 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.3998/mpub.5911170 |
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