5: The Birth of Realism out of the Spirit of Melodrama: Stifter’s Feldblumen

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works ix
4. Introduction: Stifter’s Life and Works 1
5. Part I: Genre and Style
6. 1: Stifter’s Epic Style 37
7. 2: Stifter and the Genre Conventions of Cultural Journalism 58
8. 3: All Eyes on the Streets: Transformations of Public Work, Leisure, and Ritual in Wien und die Wiener 86
9. 4: Stifter’s Late Style 110
10. Part II: Texts and Contexts
11. 5: The Birth of Realism out of the Spirit of Melodrama: Stifter’s Feldblumen 137
12. 6 Backward Glances: Registers of the Past in Stifter’s Die Mappe meines Urgroßvaters 162
13. 7 Lessons from Stifter’s Bunte Steine 181
14. 8 Absence and Omnipresence: On the Significance of Waste in Stifter’s Der Nachsommer 200
15. Part III: Elements and Environments
16. 9 Stifter’s Stones 227
17. 10 Stifter’s Glaciers 250
18. 11 Cheerful Terror: Stifter and the Aesthetics of Atmosphere 273
19. 12 Stifter’s Bavarian-Bohemian Bioregionalism 294
20. Selected Bibliography 323
21. List of Contributors 337
22. Index 341