12: Senescence and Fontane’s Der Stechlin

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Fontane in the Twenty-First Century 1
5. 1: Narrative Digression and the Transformation of Nationhood in Vor dem Sturm 12
6. 2: Nasty Women: Female Anger as Moral Judgment in Grete Minde and Effi Briest 31
7. 3: Performing the Philistine: Gossip as a Narrative Device and a Strategy for Reflection on Anti-Semitism in Theodor Fontane’s L’Adultera 48
8. 4: To Have an Eye: Visual Culture and the Misapprehension of Class in Irrungen, Wirrungen 63
9. 5: Fontane as a Pacifist? The Antiwar Message in Quitt (1890) and Fontane’s Changing Attitude to Militarism 84
10. 6: Disjunctive Transnationalisms in Fontane’s Frau Jenny Treibel 103
11. 7: On the “Right Measure” in Effi Briest: Ethics and Aesthetics of the Prosaic 121
12. 8: Transfiguration, Effect, and Engagement: Theodor Fontane’s Aesthetic Thought 142
13. 9: Fontane and World Literature: Prussians, Jews, and the Specter of Africa in Die Poggenpuhls 161
14. 10: Von Zwanzig bis Dreißig: The Male Author in Parts 185
15. 11: Melusine von Barby’s Barriers and Connections in Fontane’s Der Stechlin 213
16. 12: Senescence and Fontane’s Der Stechlin 232
17. Contributors 247
18. Index 251