Siegfried the Wrestler - The Wilhelmine World of a Colportage Novel

Continually attacked by government officials and educators, installment or colportage novels fascinated their underprivileged readers. Melodrama and sensation were essential ingredients. The hurriedly written, rambling plots sought to electrify fantasies of women with new turn-of-the-century aspirations. They also fused raw political ideas offering populist and paternalist solutions to society's challenges and tensions. Through the study of one rare, surviving colportage novel, Peter S. Fisher offers an unusual mental and visual panorama of a nearly vanished Wilhelmine world.

About the author

Peter S. Fisher received a Ph.D. in Modern European History from Harvard University. His research interests are history and popular culture of the Kaiserreich and Weimar Republic.

Summary

Continually attacked by government officials and educators, installment or colportage novels fascinated their underprivileged readers. Melodrama and sensation were essential ingredients. The hurriedly written, rambling plots sought to electrify fantasies of women with new turn-of-the-century aspirations. They also fused raw political ideas offering populist and paternalist solutions to society's challenges and tensions. Through the study of one rare, surviving colportage novel, Peter S. Fisher offers an unusual mental and visual panorama of a nearly vanished Wilhelmine world.

Product details

• Authors: Peter S Fisher, Peter S. Fisher
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2023
• EAN: 9783837666915
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-6691-5
• No. of pages: 136
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 10 mm x 227 mm
• Weight: 224 g
• Illustrations: 34 SW-Abb., 5 Farbabb.
• Series: Lettre
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Gender Studies, Literature, Cultural History, Media, Literary Studies, Popular Culture, German Literature, German History, Germany, German Empire, Gender Studies: Gruppen, Social interaction, Nineteenth Century, Social Sciences, auseinandersetzen, Popular Literature, Twentieth Century, Culture and institutions, Groups of people, Germany and neighboring central European countries, Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric, Colportage Novel