Article: History, Fiction and Germany: Writing the Nineteenth-Century Nation.(Book review)

History, Fiction and Germany: Writing the Nineteenth-Century Nation. By BRENT O. PETERSON. (Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies) Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 2005. 360 pp. $54.95. ISBN 978-0-8143-3200-9.

This thought-provoking study draws together the work of professional historians and historical novelists in the nineteenth century and analyses their participation in the construction of German national identity. Brent Peterson begins by demonstrating the extent of popular interest in history in this period and showing how false or mythic representations of the past were able to serve a larger truth by participating in the development of ...

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