Siegfried the Wrestler: The Wilhelmine World of a Colportage Novel (Lettre Series)

by: Fisher (Author),Peter S.(Author)

Publisher: Transcript Verlag

Publication Date: 1 May 2023

Language: English

Print Length: 136 pages

ISBN-10: 3837666913

ISBN-13: 9783837666915

Book Description

Continually attacked by govement 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 tu-of-the-century aspirations. They also fused raw political ideas offering populist and patealist 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.
Continually attacked by govement 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 tu-of-the-century aspirations. They also fused raw political ideas offering populist and patealist 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.