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| Format | Manuscript |
|---|---|
| Creator | Ferguson, Nate |
| Title, Manuscript | Popular Realism for the German American Audience in the 19th Century |
| Date | Oct. 23, 2025 |
| Extent of Work | 18 pages |
| Abstract | Beginning with Sabine Haenni's conception of "legitimate hybridity," which suspended "German American theatre . . . between idealism and business," the author examines Wilhelm Rosenberg's play Crumbleton: Soziales Drama in Vier Aufzügen. Wilhelm Ludwig Rosenberg (1850-1934) was the head of the American Socialist Party for five years, and editor of its paper, Der Sozialist, for three. Crumbleton, however, "exists in an ambiguous space of compromise, having many formal elements of a melodrama, but restrained in setting and naturalistic in action, as one would expect from an Ibsenian realist outing--and these both in addition to, and partly separate from, its occasional detours into explicit propaganda." |
| Notes | PDF available; in UW Box. |
| Call Number | MKI P2026-02 |
| MKI Terms | Theater & Drama/ German American/ 19th century/ Socialism/ Rosenberg, Wilhelm Ludwig, 1850-1934 |