Ideology, mimesis, fantasy : Charles Sealsfield, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Karl May, and other German novelists of America /

This study of German fiction about America in the nineteenth century concentrates in detail on three writers: Charles Sealsfield (Carl Postl, 1793-1864), an escaped Moravian monk who came to New Orleans in 1823 and wrote the first major German novels about the United States; Friedrich Gerstäcker (18...

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Main Author: Sammons, Jeffrey L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Series:University of North Carolina studies in the Germanic languages and literatures ; no. 121.
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