TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arne Koch
PY  - 2021
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2235-3496
TI  - Between National Fantasies and Regional Realities
T2  - The Paradox of Identity in Nineteenth-Century German Literature
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1102407
N2  - Despite its popularity during the nineteenth century, regional literature has often been overlooked with regard to its role in the development of German national consciousness. By exploring various illustrations of geographic-historical landscapes in texts written before the 1848 revolutions and after the 1871 unification, this book investigates the vital polyphony generated by unique regional voices throughout the age of nationalism. Close readings of texts by Berthold Auerbach, Theodor Storm, Wilhelm Raabe, Fritz Reuter, Theodor Fontane, Gottfried Keller, and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach examine recognizable and unfamiliar regions. Although this study concentrates on provincial writings, literary regionalism’s fictionality and simultaneous referentiality raise broader questions for the programmatic aesthetics of Poetic Realism and for inquiries into identity formation.
KW  - Deutsch, Literatur, Regionale Identität (Motiv), Regional literature, Geographic-historic, Nationalism, Dialect, Identity, Geschichte 1800-1900, Nationalbewusstsein (Motiv)
LA  - English
ER  -