"With this volume 147 of the de Gruyter series Studien und Texte zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur, Stefan Voß turned his University of Kiel dissertation into a detailed and theoretically sophisticated study of Gottfried Keller's narrative work. Carefully designed and meticulously documented, this analysis of masculinity and realism draws on a wealth of critical sources and provides a grand overview of Keller's male novella protagonists in their relations with female characters." Hans J. Rindisbacher in: Monatshefte, 112/3 (2020), 546-548