works Reizenstein. Die Geschichte eines deutschen Officiers (Reizenstein. The History of a German Officer)

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Titel Reizenstein. Die Geschichte eines deutschen Officiers (Reizenstein. The History of a German Officer)
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ID 8807
Type publication >> epistolary novel
Date 1779 - 1780
Collection(s)
  • Polarization in the North Atlantic Triangle
  • Uri(s) https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/8807/
    Notes In this two-volume novel, young Germans decide to emigrate to the US to find the happiness that the stricter class society in Germany prohibits. The author imagines the outcome of the American Revolution in favour of independence and a communist utopia to be secured through a constitution.
    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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