Helen Chambers Bücher

This work explores the cultural connections between Germany and England through the lens of Theodor Fontane's influence in British press from 1855 to 1899. It examines Fontane's interactions with contemporaries such as Albert Smith and Gordon Cumming, alongside Douglas Parmée's English translation of "Effi Briest." The reception of Fontane's work in Western Europe is analyzed, along with his reflections on fellow authors. Notable discussions include Fontane's reading of Karl Immermann’s "Münchhausen," his 1860 lecture on Longfellow in Berlin, and his translation of Tennyson’s "The Charge of the Light Brigade." The text also delves into Fontane's theatre criticism and literary reception, as well as thematic explorations in his novels and poetry, such as the symbolism of the moon and stars. The inadequacy of traditional female roles in Fontane's works is critically assessed, particularly in "Unwiederbringlich." Additional translations, including T. Edmund Harvey’s version of "Herr Ribbeck von Ribbeck auf Havelland," are highlighted. The study further compares urban and provincial themes in Fontane's writing with those of Joseph Roth, addressing topics like violence in urban settings and the complexities of female agency in the context of mobility and infidelity in both Fontane's and Ebner-Eschenbach's narratives.

Das Werk ist für Literaturwissenschaftler und Studierende gedacht sowohl als ausführliches Orientierungsmittel in der umfangreichen Fontaneforschung (mit Bibliographie und Sach- udn Personenregister) sowie auch als Anregung zur weiteren Diskussion über Fontanes Erzählwerk udn seinen Stellenwert im europäischen Kontext.

Focusing on the intersection of book history and literary research, this work explores the reading experiences of a renowned writer through a three-part approach. It reconstructs the author's two decades of maritime and shore-based reading, linking it to his famous narrator Marlow's practices. The study delves into his connections with male friends and literate multilingual women, contextualized within Edwardian reading habits. Additionally, it examines fictional representations of reading, including genre trends and therapeutic uses, making it valuable for both Conrad scholars and reading historians.

Brings to light unsuspectedly rich sources of humor in the works of prominent nineteenth-century women writers.

As a socialist monarchist, Jewish Catholic, skeptical mystic, and humorous sage, Roth has never fitted neatly into any one literary or historical category. The essays in this volume, devoted to the Austrian writer Joseph Roth on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his death in Paris in 1939, take a fresh look at his apparent contradictions and demonstrate his contemporary relevance as an acute analyst of the relationship between private life and political change.

Wide-ranging survey of the criticism devoted to Theodor Fontane, with particular emphasis on more recent theoretical trends.This study of the literary scholarship on Fontane's narrative works is the first to present a systematic review of the ever-growing body of criticism on Germany's major realist novelist. Significant developments in Fontane criticism are traced in historical context, from their beginnings in contemporary commentary to the present day. The author places special emphasis on scholarship since 1980, analysing the influence of new literary critical trends in this period; she also considers the effect upon traditional literary criticism of feminism, psychoanalysis, and comparatist approaches, and the fresh developments in reception history, translation, and media studies.