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German-American Urban Culture : writers & theaters in early Milwaukee / by Peter C. Merrill
- Title
- German-American Urban Culture : writers & theaters in early Milwaukee / by Peter C. Merrill
- Author
- Merrill, Peter C., 1930-
- Publication
- Madison, Wis. : Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, c2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PT1100.G47 M47 2000 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 128 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This collection of essays presents Milwaukee's most notable German-speaking writers and their works, including Wisconsin-written plays and operettas, prose, poetry, series novels, and Feuilleton contributions. A number of essays treat the cultural context these writers worked in, especially Milwaukee's most important German-language theatres, up through the renovation of the Pabst Theater."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies
- Uniform Title
- Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies
- Subjects
- Biographies
- History
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Biography
- Geschichte 1800-1900
- Milwaukee (Wis.) > Intellectual life
- Theaters > Wisconsin > Milwaukee > History
- Theater > Wisconsin > Milwaukee > History
- German American literature > Wisconsin > Milwaukee > History and criticism
- American German Studies > Wisconsin > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- German immigrant writers in Wisconsin -- The German-American theater in the nineteenth century -- German-American plays and operettas in Milwaukee -- Anton Thormählen, Milwaukee poet -- Ernst Anton Zündt and the German-American theater -- The serial novel in the German-American press of the nineteenth century -- Sunday reading: German-American authors in the Feuilleton of the two Milwaukee newspapers, 1879-1885 -- German theaters in Milwaukee -- Brushing up on Pabst -- German-American urban culture in the late nineteenth century.
- ISBN
- 0924119039
- LCCN
- ^^^99076204^
- OCLC
- 44509295
- SCSB-11110531
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library