persons Sealsfield, Charles

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Name Sealsfield, Charles
Alternative Names
  • alternative name >> given name: Karl Anton Postl
  • ID 8809
    Gender male
    Lifespan 1793-03-03 - 1864-05-26
    Professions journalist (Q1930187)
    Collection(s)
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  • Polarization in the North Atlantic Triangle
  • Uri(s) https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/8809/
    Notes Sealsfield wrote mostly about the Old South from an idyllic and decidedly American perspective that depicts the plantations in a positive light, leaving critics to wonder whether he was in fact romanticising and supporting slavery, or encouraging readers to be critical and perceptive of his narrator's contradictions.
    References Kriegleder, Wynfrid. "Looking for a Scapegoat. Germanophone Novelists of the 19th and 20th Century Depicting a Polarized America." Polarization in the North Atlantic Triangle. Vienna: Verlag der ÖAW, 2023.

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    Start End Other relation type Related Place
    born in Popice
    1831 moved to Switzerland
    1823 1831 emigrated to United States of America

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    Karl Anton Postl alternative name >> given name deu

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