TY - BOOK AU - Fisher,Peter S. TI - Siegfried the Wrestler: The Wilhelmine World of a Colportage Novel T2 - Lettre SN - 9783839466919 AV - HF5456.B7 .F574 2023 U1 - 266.0092 23 PY - 2023///] CY - Bielefeld PB - transcript Verlag KW - Booksellers and bookselling KW - Colportage, subscription trade, etc KW - Popular literature KW - United States KW - History and criticism KW - Colportage Novel KW - Cultural History KW - Gender Studies KW - German Empire KW - German History KW - German Literature KW - Germany KW - Literary Studies KW - Literature KW - Media KW - Nineteenth Century KW - Popular Culture KW - Twentieth Century KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Part One --; 1. Three Readers: George Grosz, Moritz Bromme, Adelheid Popp --; 2. For and Against Popular Literature --; 3. Enter Siegfried the Wrestler --; 4. Wrestling --; 5. National and Ethnic Stereotypes --; 6. Current Events and Sensation --; 7. Class Conflict: Siegfried as Peacemaker --; 8. Wilhelmine Women and their Wrestler --; 9. The Contradictions of Colportage: Paternalism and Populism --; 10. Postscript: Heinrich Büttner’s First Colportage Novel of 1892 --; Part Two --; The Illustrations --; Notes; restricted access N2 - Continually attacked by government officials and educators, installment or colportage novels fascinated their underprivileged readers. Melodrama and sensation were essential ingredients. The hurriedly written, rambling plots sought to electrify fantasies of women with new turn-of-the-century aspirations. They also fused raw political ideas offering populist and paternalist solutions to society's challenges and tensions. Through the study of one rare, surviving colportage novel, Peter S. Fisher offers an unusual mental and visual panorama of a nearly vanished Wilhelmine world UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839466919?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839466919 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783839466919/original ER -