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Popular Fiction in the Age of Bismarck: E. Marlitt and her Narrative Strategies by Terrill John May (review)

erates cold objectivity and scornful superiority. However, Christa does not follow the social Darwinism and racial eugenics of Ellen Key’s Das Jahrhundert des Kindes (1902), but is sympathetic to congenitally sick children from the city. AndreasSalomé, as is well known, was analyzed by Freud and became an analyst herself; thus the tension in her novel between conscious and unconscious motives and “its sensitive exploration of liminal states of being [ . . . ] on the threshold between realism and modernism” (120). Frapan’s Arbeit took cues from Böhlau’s Halbtier!. Jerusalem’s “Skarabäus” is an allusion, though with reverse implications, to the image of the “golden fly” in Zola’s Nana. This engagement with widely discussed issues of the time is not the only indication that this body of writing is not a niche phenomenon in the literature of the time. These writers were prominent; some of the books were good sellers, arousing the suspicions of the aesthetic gatekeepers about quality. There even was a “moral campaign in the 1900s in favour of male pre-marital chastity, known as Veraismus” (96). It has been estimated that women constituted one-third of the authors of the century. However, women’s protest writing encountered a backlash around the time of World War I: it was viewed as contrary to the true German attitude to gender relations, despised as a foreign implant from France and Scandinavia, and somehow Jewish. The women writers disappeared from the literary histories, and most of them remained invisible until the time I was a student. This erasure of much of realism, and not only of women writers, made German literature of the time seem more provincial and introverted, less cosmopolitan and engaged than it was. The recovery of the full German literary history of this era is an ongoing desideratum. Woodford’s book is recommendable to teachers and students working in this period because it is full of indicators of how one might enrich the fabric of literary life of the time.