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by Gordon A. Craig

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First published in Germany to popular and critical acclaim, this is a unique portrait of the life and work of Theodor Fontane, the greatest German novelist of his age, as well as a major poet and theater critic and much loved travel writer. Gordon A. Craig, one of the foremost scholars of German history, interpolates a cohesive historical biography of Fontane with his own reflections on the art, culture, and politics of Fontane's world.

The ideas and impressions of Fontane and Craig echo one another throughout the book in compelling and fascinating ways. Fontane's travel accounts of Scotland and Prussia are enriched by Craig's discussion of Germany's increasingly national vision of itself and the world at the time of unification. Similarly, Craig's mastery of German military history dovetails remarkably well with Fontane's reportage on Germany's wars with Denmark, Austria, and France. Interesting are Fontane's ruminations over his great contemporary Otto von Bismarck, whom he revered as founder of the Reich but whose policies he feared would in the end be self-defeating.

Although Fontane's Wanderings through the Mark Brandenburg and his novels are more widely read in Germany today than they were in his own time, and although his masterpiece Effi Briest was the basis for a famous Fassbinder film, Fontane remains little known in the English-speaking world. Theodor Fontane is the ideal introduction to this major European writer, a master of social analysis and one of the great letter writers of his age.

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  • Title Theodor Fontane: Literature and History in the Bismarck Reich
  • Author Gordon A. Craig
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, NY
  • Publication date 1999-11-04
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780195128376 / 0195128370
  • Weight 1.29 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.58 x 6.5 x 1.1 in (24.33 x 16.51 x 2.79 cm)
  • Reading level 1680
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Germany
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Germany - History - 1789-1900, Authors, German - 19th century - Biography
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98-47520
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Atlantic Monthly, 10/01/2000, Page 134

About the author

Gordon A. Craig is J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Stanford University. His several highly regarded books include Germany, 1866-1945, The End of Prussia, and Politics of the Unpolitical. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.

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