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The late nineteenth century was a crucial period for the development of German fiction. Political unification and industrialization were accompanied by the rise of a mass market for German literature, and with it the beginnings of the German bestseller.Offering escape, romance, or adventure, as well as insights into the modern world, nineteenth-century bestsellers often captured the imagination of readers well into the twentieth century and beyond. However, many have been neglected by scholars. This volume offers new readings of literary realism by focusing not on the accepted intellectual canon but on commercially successful fiction in its material and social contexts. It investigates bestsellers from writers such as Freytag, Dahn, Jensen, Raabe, Viebig, Stifter, Auerbach, Storm, Möllhausen, Marlitt, Suttner, and Thomas Mann. The contributions examine the aesthetic strategies that made the works such a success, and writers' attempts to appeal simultaneously on different levels to different readers. Bestselling writers often sought to accommodate the expectations of publishers and the marketplace, while preserving some sense of artistic integrity. This volume sheds light on the important effect of the mass market on the writing not just of popular works, but of German prose fiction on all levels.

German fiction --- Popular literature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Aesthetic Strategies. --- Commercially Successful Fiction. --- German Fiction. --- Late Nineteenth Century. --- Literary Realism. --- Marketplace. --- Mass Market. --- Publishers.

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Both realist, post-postmodernist aesthetics in the twenty-first century and the legacy of analog photography in its recent digital incarnation depend on an aesthetics of trust and a sense of contingent referentiality. Julia Breitbach's innovative study demonstrates how current photographic discourse may be used as an illuminating critical idiom for the analysis of recent forms of literary realism, thus proposing a photographic hermeneutics for the study of literature. Along with a thorough critical investigation of both fields, Breitbach offers a pioneering theoretical exploration of analog and digital photography based on recent "thing theory," which she then applies to in-depth analyses of realist aesthetics in selected post-millennial novels by Don DeLillo, Michael Ondaatje, and Ali Smith, yielding fresh perspectives on the remediation between photography and literature in the twenty-first century. An original contribution to the study of contemporary Anglophone literatures with an interdisciplinary appeal, this study will be of interest especially to scholars and students in Anglophone literary studies, comparative literature, cultural studies, and media studies. Julia Breitbach is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Constance, Germany.

Fiction --- Literature and photography. --- Realism in literature. --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- Photography and literature --- Photography --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy --- Analog Fictions. --- Digital Age. --- Literary Realism. --- Photographic Discourses. --- analog photography. --- contemporary German and Austrian identities. --- contemporary literary analysis. --- current photographic discourse. --- gender and sexuality. --- globalization. --- green thought. --- literary study. --- media studies. --- novels. --- post-postmodernist aesthetics. --- postmemory of the Holocaust.

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What do we mean when we say that a novel's conclusion "feels right"? How did feeling, form, and the sense of right and wrong get mixed up, during the nineteenth century, in the experience of reading a novel? Good Form argues that Victorian readers associated the feeling of narrative form-of being pulled forward to a satisfying conclusion-with inner moral experience. Reclaiming the work of a generation of Victorian "intuitionist" philosophers who insisted that true morality consisted in being able to feel or intuit the morally good, Jesse Rosenthal shows that when Victorians discussed the moral dimensions of reading novels, they were also subtly discussing the genre's formal properties.For most, Victorian moralizing is one of the period's least attractive and interesting qualities. But Good Form argues that the moral interpretation of novel experience was essential in the development of the novel form-and that this moral approach is still a fundamental, if unrecognized, part of how we understand novels. Bringing together ideas from philosophy, literary history, and narrative theory, Rosenthal shows that we cannot understand the formal principles of the novel that we have inherited from the nineteenth century without also understanding the moral principles that have come with them. Good Form helps us to understand the way Victorians read, but it also helps us to understand the way we read now.

Ethics in literature. --- English fiction --- History and criticism. --- 1800-1899 --- Analogy. --- Anecdote. --- Autobiography. --- Backstory. --- Bildungsroman. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Character (arts). --- Charles Dickens. --- Conscience. --- Consciousness. --- Crime fiction. --- Criticism. --- Critique of Pure Reason. --- D. A. Miller. --- Daniel Deronda. --- Deus ex machina. --- E. M. Forster. --- Edward Bulwer-Lytton. --- Elizabeth Gaskell. --- Epic poetry. --- Ethics. --- Eugene Aram. --- Explanation. --- Fiction. --- Franco Moretti. --- Fredric Jameson. --- Genre fiction. --- Genre. --- George Eliot. --- George Meredith. --- Good and evil. --- Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals. --- Gwendolen Harleth. --- Gwendolen. --- Halpern. --- Historical fiction. --- Humour. --- I Wish (manhwa). --- Ian Watt. --- Illustration. --- Intuitionism. --- Jack Sheppard. --- James Clerk Maxwell. --- John Stuart Mill. --- Johns Hopkins. --- Jonathan Wild. --- Laughter. --- Lecture. --- Leopold Zunz. --- Literary criticism. --- Literary realism. --- Literature. --- Mary Barton. --- Meditations. --- Middlemarch. --- Misery (novel). --- Morality. --- Narration. --- Narrative structure. --- Narrative. --- Newgate novel. --- Novel. --- Novelist. --- Oxford University Press. --- Parody. --- Paul Clifford. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Poetry. --- Political philosophy. --- Practical reason. --- Probability. --- Prose. --- Publication. --- Quantity. --- Reason. --- Ridicule. --- Roland Barthes. --- Rookwood (novel). --- Sensation novel. --- Steven Marcus. --- Subplot. --- Suggestion. --- Teleology. --- The Intuitionist. --- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. --- The Marriage Plot. --- The Other Hand. --- The Pickwick Papers. --- Theft. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Usage. --- Utilitarianism. --- Victorian literature. --- William Harrison Ainsworth. --- William Whewell. --- Writer. --- Writing.