5: Buddenbrooks as Bestseller

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: German Fiction and the Marketplace in the Nineteenth Century 1
6. Part I: The Aesthetics of Success and Failure
7. 1: Gustav Freytag’s Soll und Haben: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Bestseller 21
8. 2: Felix Dahn’s Ein Kampf um Rom: Historical Fiction as Melodrama 39
9. 3: Wilhelm Jensen and Wilhelm Raabe: Literary Value, Evolutionary Aesthetics, and Competition in the Marketplace 58
10. 4: Clara Viebig: Using the Genres of Heimatkunst und Großstadtroman to Create Bestselling Novels 77
11. 5: Buddenbrooks as Bestseller 95
12. Part II: Short Fiction
13. 6: Homeliness and Otherness: Reflections on Stifter’s Bergkristall 115
14. 7: Berthold Auerbach’s Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten: Political and Religious Contexts of a Nineteenth-Century Bestseller 127
15. 8: Theodor Storm’s Der Schimmelreiter: Schauerrealismus or Gothic Realism in the Family Periodical 144
16. Part III: Imagination and Identification
17. 9: Selling the Experience of the New World: Balduin Möllhausen’s Novellistic Imagination of America 165
18. 10: E. Marlitt’s Bestselling Poetics 183
19. 11: Bertha von Suttner’s Die Waffen nieder! and Gabriele Reuter’s Aus guter Familie: Sentimentality and Social Criticism 206
20. 12: Taking Sex to Market: Tagebuch einer Verlorenen: Von einer Toten and Josefine Mutzenbacher, Die Lebensgeschichte einer wienerischen Dirne, von ihr selbst erzählt 224
21. Works Cited 243
22. Notes on the Contributors 269
23. Index 273