The Backfischroman is a genre in German literature. It denotes a particular type of novel of the 19th and early 20th century, primarily aiming at adolescent girls as an audience.
Facts
Place of Origin Notable ExampleDer Trotzkopf (1885) by Emmy von Rhoden 1 Defining TraitTold in the first person by an adolescent girl of middle or higher class upbringing who ultimately chooses to accept the conventional role of wife and mother 1 Connections
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Germany, originated there.
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1. Backfischroman (Wikipedia)
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The Backfischroman (teenage girl novel, literal meaning: baked fish novel) is a genre in German literature.
Narrative pattern paragraph
The Backfischroman is usually told from a first-person perspective, with the main character being an adolescent girl of middle or higher class upbringing.
Notable examples sentence
Typical well known examples are Emmy von Rhoden's Der Trotzkopf (1885) and Clementine Helm's Backfischchens Leiden und Freuden (1863).
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