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This study of German fiction about America in the nineteenth century concentrates in detail on three writers: Charles Sealsfield (Carl Postl, 1793–1864), an escaped Moravian monk who came to New Orleans in 1823 and wrote the first major German novels about the United States; Friedrich Gerstäcker (18...

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Language:English
Published: University of North Carolina Press 2020
Online Access:https://uncpress.org/book/9781469656700/ideology-mimesis-fantasy/