Jane Eyre in German Lands : The Import of Romance, 1848-1918

the popular German writer E. Marlitt and its many adaptations-evince a struggle over its meaning and promise. Yet precisely this multiplicity (repetition, redundancy, and proliferation) combined with the romance narrative's intrinsic appeal in the decades between the March Revolutions and women's franchise enabled the cultural diffusion, impact, and long-term survival of "Jane Eyre" as German reading. Though its focus on the circulation of texts across linguistic boundaries and intertwined literary markets and reading cultures, Jane Eyre" in German Lands" unsettles the national paradigm of literary history and makes a case for a fuller and inclusive account of the German literary field. [Publisher's Text]

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