Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. List of Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction: Industrialization, Environmental Degradation, and the Aesthetics of Realism 1
7. 1: Environmental Counterfictions: The Ethical Domination of Nature in Adalbert Stifter 33
8. 2: The Styx Flows through Arcadia: Environmental Depredation and Aesthetic Reflection in Wilhelm Raabe’s Late Fiction 72
9. 3: Hydrologic Engineering, Social Change, and the Persistence of the Fantastic in Theodor Storm’s Der Schimmelreiter 103
10. 4: The Poetics of an Emerging Anthropocene: Theodor Fontane’s Der Stechlin 128
11. Conclusion: The Nature of Realism 152
12. Bibliography 159
13. Index 173