Understanding Charles Sealsfield, Understanding America

ISBN-13: 9781800799707 / Angielski

Susan Gustafson; Gail Hart; Peter Meilaender

Opis

Charles Sealsfield, a runaway Moravian monk, reinvented himself as an American author and the self-proclaimed founder of a new novel form. Now long forgotten, his fiction, travel books and correspondence reassess his contribution to the American and German canons.

Spis treści

Contents: Sealsfield's Lexicon - A Political Fable - Europe Redux - A New Kind of Romance - Mexico in a New Key - «The Moneycracy» - «The Great American Novel» - «Brave New World» - Back to the Future - «The Pilgrims' Regress» - Epilogue: «The ghostly-Mr. Sealsfield» or Sealsfield's Enigmatic Correspondence.

O autorze

Jerry Schuchalter is a former Associate Professor at the Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. He has taught at universities in Finland, Germany, and Russia. He has published widely on Charles Sealsfield, German-American literature, as well as on the Holocaust and Norman Mailer.