Mugge-Meiburg, Beth L.
Words Chiseled into Marble

Artworks in the Prose Narratives of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer.

This volume focuses on C. F. Meyer's inclusion of visual-spatial artworks in his narrative texts. It pinpoints what is most uniquely characteristic of Meyer's means of representing works of art, and offers fruitful comparisons with contemporaries such as Nathaniel Hawthorne. The book takes a look at Meyer's «historical realism», and elucidates how his reconstructions of European history reflect his problematic «borderline» stance as a multilingual Swiss and a Protestant aesthete. 226 Seiten, gebunden (North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature and Culture; Vol. 9/Peter Lang Verlag 1991) Mängelexemplar/near mint