# Ideology, Mimesis, Fantasy, Vol. 1

By **Jeffrey L. Sammons**

- ISBN-13: 9781469656700
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 360
- Published: 30 May 2020
- Categories: In literature, History and criticism, German fiction, history and criticism, German fiction, America, in literature, America

## About this book

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 Gerstacker (1816-1872), who, among

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