European Local-Color Literature : National Tales, Dorfgeschichten, Romans Champetres
Author(s): Josephine Donovan
A pioneering work in comparative European literature by a leading American scholar.
Review(s):
“Donovan does an admirable job of directing her readers' attention to many relatively unfamiliar, nineteenth-century works from these two countries, as well as from France and Germany. The incisive comparisons she draws between all these stories highlight various ways in which local-color literature represented a locus for political and cultural dissent during a period when European thought was saturated with the totalizing force of a post-Enlightenment drive toward modernization. This pioneering study opens the way for further informed comparative analysis of the origins, forms, and influences of this distinctive form of writing.” —Anne Markey; Trinity College, Dublin; Comparative Literature Studies
“Full of clever literary insights and draws comparisons between texts written in different languages in ambitious and intelligent ways.” —James Moran, University of Nottingham, Comparative Critical Studies
ISBN: 9780826429469