Gypsies and Orientalism in German Literature and Anthropology of the Long Nineteenth Century

by Nicholas Saul

Overview

Gypsies and Orientalism in German Literature and Anthropology of the Long Nineteenth Century

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367604059
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.75(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nicholas Saul is Professor of German and chairs the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Durham.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

1 Stations in Gypsy Cultural Anthropology from Jacob Thomasius to Liszt 1

2 Zigeunerromantik, Gypsy Others, and Fake Gypsies in German Literature from Wolzogen to Immermann 20

3 Secularized Zigeunerromantik: Literary Gypsies and Realism in Storm and Stifter 47

4 Gypsies, German Identity, and Heimat in Hebbel, Raabe, Keller, and Strauss 60

5 German Knowledge, German Nation, and German Paths to Selfhood in Freytag and May 91

6 Gypsies, Race, Culture, and Hybridity in Wilhelm Jensen 106

7 Carl Hauptmann's Gypsies between Racial Hygiene and Bohème 121

8 Saar, Alscher, and the Beginning of the End 148

Bibliography 167

Index 181