TY - BOOK AU - Drescher,Michael Rodegang TI - Poets of Protest: Mythological Resignification in American Antebellum and German Vormärz Literature T2 - American Culture Studies SN - 9783839437452 AV - PS169.N35 D74 2017 U1 - 813.30915 22/ger PY - 2016///] CY - Bielefeld PB - transcript Verlag KW - American literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - German literature KW - Myth in literature KW - National characteristics, American, in literature KW - National characteristics, German, in literature KW - America KW - American History KW - American Studies KW - Antebellum America KW - Cultural Studies KW - Culture KW - Heinrich Heine KW - Karl Gutzkow KW - Literary Studies KW - Narratology KW - Nathaniel Hawthorne KW - National Identity KW - Politics KW - Vormärz Germany KW - William Wells Brown KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; 1. Introduction --; The Pushing of Horizons --; 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and the Opening of Fences --; 3. Karl Gutzkow’s Wally, die Zweiflerin and the Despair of Artificiality --; The Treading of Pathways --; 4. William Wells Brown’s Clotel and the Puritan Voyage Reversed --; 5. Heinrich Heine’s Wintermärchen and the Laughter of the Age --; 6. Conclusion --; Works Cited; restricted access N2 - Michael Drescher analyzes national mythologies in American and German literature. He focuses on processes of mythological resignification, a literary phenomenon carrying significant implications for questions of identity, democracy, and nationalism in Europe and America. Precise narratological analyses are paired with detailed, transnational readings of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Gutzkow's Wally, die Zweiflerin, Brown's Clotel, and Heine's Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen. The study marries literature, mythology, and politics and contributes to the study of American and German literature at large UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839437452?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839437452 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839437452/original ER -