Fontane in the Twenty–First Century: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Acknowledgments Note on Editions Introduction: Fontane in the Twenty-First Century - John B. Lyon and Brian Tucker Narrative Digression and the Transformation of Nationhood in Vor dem Sturm - Russell A. Berman Nasty Women: Female Anger as Moral Judgment in Grete Minde and Effi Briest - Holly A. Yanacek Peforming the Philistine: Gossip as a Narrative Device and a Strategy for Reflection on Anti-Semitism in Theodor Fontane's L'Adultera - Nicolas von Passavant To Have an Eye: Visual Culture and the Misapprehension of Class in Irrungen, Wirrungen - Brian Tucker Fontane as a Pacifist? The Anti-War Message in Quitt and Fontane's Changing Attitude to Militarism - James N. Bade Disjunctive Transnationalisms in Fontane's Frau Jenny Treibel - John B. Lyon On the "Right Measure" in Effi Briest: Ethics and Aesthetics of the Prosaic - Katharina Adeline Engler-Coldren Transfiguration, Effect, and Engagement: Theodor Fontane's Aesthetic Thought - Michael J. White Fontane and World Literature: Prussians, Jews, and the Specter of Africa in Die Poggenpuhls - Todd Kontje Von Zwanzig bis Dreissig: The Male Author in Parts - Lynne Tatlock Melusine von Barby's Barriers and Connections in Fontane's Der Stechlin - Christian Thomas Senescence and Fontane's Der Stechlin - Ervin Malakaj Notes on the Contributors Index