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The brothers Grimm [electronic resource] / Ruth Michaelis-Jena.

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This is the first modern biography of the Brothers Grimm, first published in 1970. It is a study of them in their background of late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century Germany, and shows the position they held in their society as founders of Germanic philology, as members of the 'Gttinge...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Michaelis-Jena, Ruth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2015.
Edition:1st edition.
Series:Routledge library editions. Folklore ; 3.
Subjects:
Grimm, Jacob, > 1785-1863.
Grimm, Wilhelm, > 1786-1859.
Philologists > Germany > Biography.
Fairy tales > Germany > History and criticism.
Fairy tales.
Philologists.
Germany.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Childhood in Hanau and Steinau
  • Schooldays in Cassel: Students at Marburg University
  • Settling in Cassel
  • The nursery and household tales
  • Westphalian friendships: The fairytale wife
  • Living in turbulent times
  • The congress of Vienna
  • Growing fame as horizons widen
  • A storm gathers
  • The move to Göttingen
  • The Göttingen seven
  • Exiles in Cassel
  • Finding new roots
  • Travels and homecomings, German philologists meet
  • March revolution Frankfurt parliament and after
  • The declining years
  • The nursery and household tales, and their influence.

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