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History, Fiction, And Germany: Writing The Nineteenth-Century Nation (Kritik)
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by Brent O. Peterson
Sales Rank: 1611377
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List Price: $54.95
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 360 pages
Published by: Wayne State University Press September 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0814332005
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0814332009
Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.2 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1.3 pounds
Book Description
A study of the content, development, and transmission of German identity during the nineteenth century as Germanys national narrative took shape in historical fiction and in both popular and academic history.
Publisher Description
The German-speaking inhabitants of central Europe did not automatically think of themselves as "Germans"-not before 1871 and not always after unification. In fact, they spoke mutually incomprehensible dialects, owed allegiance to different leaders, worshiped in different churches, and would not have recognized each others customs. If asked about their identity, these prospective Germans might have answered Austrian, Bavarian, or Prussian, and they could as easily have used more local labels or resorted to occupational markers. For this disparate population to think of itself as "German," that word had to acquire content-people had to learn a whole set of stories they could tell themselves and to others in answer to the question of identity.
History, Fiction, and Germany chronicles how German nationalism developed simultaneously with the historical novel and the field of history, both at universities and in middlebrow reading material. The book looks at Germanys emerging national narrative as nineteenth-century writers adapted it to their own visions and to changing circumstances. These writers found and popularized the nations heroes and heroines, demonized its villains and enemies, and projected the nations hopes and dreams for the future. Author Brent O. Peterson argues that it was the production and consumption of national history-the writing and reading of the nation-that filled Germany with Germans. Although the task of national narration was never complete and never produced a single, universally accepted version of German national identity, tales from Germans gradually shared history did more to create Germany than any statesman, general, or philosopher. History, Fiction, and Germany provides a valuable resource for scholars and students of German studies, as well as anyone interested in history and the articulation of national identity.
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