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Theodor Fontane: The Major Novels

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Theodor Fontane: The Major Novels
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Alan Bance
SeriesAnglica Germanica Series 2
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9780521155038
ClassificationsDewey:833.8
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 26 August 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This 1982 book examines the novels of Theodor Fontane, one of the most important German novelists of the nineteenth century. He has been well served by English translations and is now regarded as a writer of international standing. Professor Bance begins by setting Fontane's work in the context of nineteenth-century Europe in general, and Germany in particular, which was struggling with its late modernization. The increasing materialism of modern industrial society found its literary correlative in the rise of prose fiction to supplant poetry as the predominant literary mode. Fontane's career reflects this development: beginning as a writer of ballads and balladesque novels, he gradually developed into a realistic novelist capable of treating the most complex social relations. Professor Bance argues that Fontane's oeuvre can be seen in terms of a tension between a desire to present the facts and a desire to assert some transcendent poetic truth.