John B. Lyon

Out of Place

German Realism, Displacement and Modernity

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In late nineteenth-century Germany, the onset of modernity transformed how people experienced place. In response to increased industrialization and urbanization, the expansion of international capitalism, and the extension of railway and other travel networks, the sense of being connected to a specific place gave way to an unsettling sense of displacement. Out of Place analyzes the works of three major representatives of German Realism-Wilhelm Raabe, Theodor Fontane, and Gottfried Keller-within this historical context. It situates the perceived loss of place evident in their texts within the contemporary discourse of housing and urban reform,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4411-1701-4
EAN: 9781441117014
Produktnummer: 29845939
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 224 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 3'907 KB

Über den Autor

John B. Lyon is Professor of German at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is the author of Crafting Flesh, Crafting the Self: Violence and Identity in Early 19th Century German Literature (2006) and Out of Place: German Realism, Displacement, and Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2013).