Black devil and iron angel

Cover

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Title Page, Copyright, Dedication

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CONTENTS

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Preface

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pp. ix-xii

While driving to work one day in September 1996, I was listening to a story on National Public Radio comparing the cultural reception of the...

Abbreviations

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pp. xiii-xvi

1. Introduction

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pp. 1-26

In 1846, when Berthold Auerbach published Sträflinge (Convicts), part of his popular...

2. Berthold Auerbach

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pp. 27-54

Berthold Auerbach, born Moses Baruch Auerbach in the Swabian city of Nordstetten in 1812,was one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed...

3. Peter Rosegger

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pp. 55-83

The railway presented the same conflict in Austria that it did in Germany, and it is interesting that the conflict plays a central role in the works of another...

4. Theodor Fontane

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pp. 84-108

Theodor Fontane was born in Neuruppin near Berlin in 1819, more than twenty-five years before the first steam-driven German railway, the Bavarian...

5. Gerhart Hauptmann

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pp. 109-127

Gerhart Hauptmann was born in Obersalzbrunn in Silesia in 1862, more than twenty-five years after the first railway in Germany was built...

6. Max Eyth

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pp. 128-148

Like Fontane, the former pharmacist, Max Eyth came to his writing career rather late in life from an unrelated field. He was sixty years old when he moved...

7. Conclusion

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pp. 149-154

This project originated in response to a call by Peter Watson to begin to think of the arts and sciences as part of one extended narrative.¹This type of prodding has quite a history indeed. Elinor S. Shaffer puts it best in her...

Appendix A.“Im Nachtzug”

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pp. 155-158

Appendix B.“Die Brück’ am Tay”

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pp. 159-162

Bibliography

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pp. 163-168

Index

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pp. 169-173

Production Notes

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p. 174-174