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Siegfried the Wrestler

The Wilhelmine World of a Colportage Novel

Peter S. Fisher

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geisteswissenschaften allgemein

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Continually attacked by government officials and educators, installment or colportage novels fascinated their underprivileged readers. Melodrama and sensation were essential ingredients. The hurriedly written, rambling plots sought to electrify fantasies of women with new turn-of-the-century aspirations. They also fused raw political ideas offering populist and paternalist solutions to society's challenges and tensions. Through the study of one rare, surviving colportage novel, Peter S. Fisher offers an unusual mental and visual panorama of a nearly vanished Wilhelmine world.

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Popular Culture, Popular Literature, Literary Studies, German Literature, Nineteenth Century, Literature, Media, Germany, Cultural History, Colportage Novel, Twentieth Century, Gender Studies, German History, German Empire