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.
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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 Typical Audience Defining Trait Connections
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Source Clementine Helm (Wikipedia)
Source Emmy von Rhoden (Wikipedia)
Form Of Genre
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Source Backfischroman (Wikipedia)
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1. Backfischroman (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationLead paragraph, first sentence
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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primarily aiming at adolescent girls
Lead paragraph, defining sentence
The Backfischroman (teenage girl novel, literal meaning: baked fish novel) is a genre in German literature.
View the Source Emmy von Rhoden (Wikipedia)
Features Author: Emmy von Rhoden, Lead sentence [in-genre]Quote, Features Author: Emmy von Rhoden, Lead sentence [in-genre]
one of the prototypes of the Backfischroman
Clementine Helm (Wikipedia)
Features Author: Clementine Helm, English Wikipedia article textQuote, Features Author: Clementine Helm, English Wikipedia article text
is an example of the German genre Backfischroman
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