Alexander Robert Phillips

Ecology and German Realism (eBook, ePUB)

Poetics, Politics, and the Conquest of Nature

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Shows, contrary to the traditional view, that the major authors of German literary realism not only thematized environmental transformation but that it was central to their aesthetics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805436072
• Artikelnr.: 72859291

Autorenporträt

ALEXANDER ROBERT PHILLIPS holds a PhD in German Studies from Cornell University and is Assistant Professor of English, Ashoka University, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction:
Industrialization, Environmental Degradation, and the Aesthetics of Realism
1. Environmental Counterfictions: The Ethical Domination of Nature in
Adalbert Stifter 2. The Styx Flows through Arcadia: Environmental
Depredation and Aesthetic Reflection in Wilhelm Raabe's Late Fiction 3.
Hydrologic Engineering, Social Change, and the Persistence of the Fantastic
in Theodor Storm's Der Schimmelreiter 4. The Poetics of an Emerging
Anthropocene: Theodor Fontane's Der Stechlin Conclusion The Nature of
Realism Bibliography Index