Contents: Social history, everyday history and history of mentalities, exemplified in German and French novels, seventeenth
to nineteenth centuries: Sorel, Grimmelshausen, Christian Reuter, Der Sächsische Robinson, Schnabel, Gellert, La Roche,
Nicolai, Goethe, Jean Paul, Tieck, Gotthelf, Keller, Balzac – Distinguishing historical evidence from fantasy.