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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Schueppen, Franz |
| Title, Analytic | 'Amerika' im Koeniglichen Schauspielhaus Berlin: Rudolf Geneés Charakterbild Stephy Girard nach Charles Sealsfields Morton und Theodor Fontanes Kritik in der Vossischen Zeitung zum 12. October 1978 |
| Journal Title | Yearbook of German-American Studies |
| Date of Publication | 2004 |
| Volume ID | 39 |
| Location in Work | 105-121 |
| Language or Document Type | English |
| ISSN | 0741-2827 |
| Abstract | From the summary: In October 1878 the Royal Theatre of Berlin performed a one-act play by Rudolf Geneé about Stephen Girard, an important nineteenth-century banker and wholesaler in Philadelphia. Charles Sealsfield had written a two-volume novel in which he described how John A. Morton, having become bankrupt, becomes Girard's London agent in the banking industry, forsaking his life as a farmer on the Susquehanna. While Sealsfield's work contains a "certain demonization of banking establishments," novelist Theodor Fontane favorable review of Geneé's play finds the character of Girard to represent the "typical American" as "a representative of a new world and a new age." Geneé and Fontane's writings "indicate a certain rapprochement of Prussia to the United States in those years." The "American" qualities of such businessmen, in contrast to those of slave-holding planters, are held to be leading to "a better world." |
| Notes | Includes English summary and bibliographical references; [italicize Stephy Girard, Morton, and Vossischen Zeitung] |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Sealsfield, Charles (Postl, Karl), 1793-1864/ Literature, German-American/ National characteristics, American, in literature/ National characteristics, American -- Public opinion, German/ America in German literature |