Siegfried the Wrestler: The Wilhelmine World of a Colportage Novel (Lettre Series)

Siegfried the Wrestler: The Wilhelmine World of a Colportage Novel (Lettre Series)
by: Fisher (Author),Peter S.(Author)
Publisher:Transcript Verlag
Publication Date: 1 May 2023
Language:English
Print Length:136 pages
ISBN-10:3837666913
ISBN-13:9783837666915
Book Description
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
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.