Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp ix-x

Introduction: German Fiction and the Marketplace in the Nineteenth Century

pp 1-18

Part I - The Aesthetics of Success and Failure

pp 19-20

1 - Gustav Freytag’s Soll und Haben: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Bestseller

pp 21-38

2 - Felix Dahn’s Ein Kampf um Rom: Historical Fiction as Melodrama

pp 39-57

3 - Wilhelm Jensen and Wilhelm Raabe: Literary Value, Evolutionary Aesthetics, and Competition in the Marketplace

pp 58-76

4 - Clara Viebig: Using the Genres of Heimatkunst und Großstadtroman to Create Bestselling Novels

pp 77-94

5 - Buddenbrooks as Bestseller

pp 95-112

Part II - Short Fiction

pp 113-114

6 - Homeliness and Otherness: Reflections on Stifter’s Bergkristall

pp 115-126

7 - Berthold Auerbach’s Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten: Political and Religious Contexts of a Nineteenth-Century Bestseller

pp 127-143

8 - Theodor Storm’s Der Schimmelreiter: Schauerrealismus or Gothic Realism in the Family Periodical

pp 144-162

Part III - Imagination and Identification

pp 163-164

9 - Selling the Experience of the New World: Balduin Möllhausen’s Novellistic Imagination of America

pp 165-182

10 - E. Marlitt’s Bestselling Poetics

pp 183-205

11 - Bertha von Suttner’s Die Waffen nieder! and Gabriele Reuter’s Aus guter Familie: Sentimentality and Social Criticism

pp 206-223

12 - Taking Sex to Market: Tagebuch einer Verlorenen: Von einer Toten and Josefine Mutzenbacher, Die Lebensgeschichte einer wienerischen Dirne, von ihr selbst erzählt

pp 224-242

Works Cited

pp 243-268

Notes on the Contributors

pp 269-272

Index

pp 273-286