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ARIANNA DI BELLA

La patria in guerra. I romanzi di Elisabeth Werner

Abstract

This essay examines the works of Elisabeth Werner (Elisabeth Bürstenbinder, 1838-1918) a successful novelist still not fully explored and how she deals in her romantic novels (printed in the magazine for families Die Gartenlaube) with the German wars of the Risorgiment, particularly the Danish and Franco-Prussian wars. This study illustrates how Elisabeth Werner uses these two conflicts to intensify the nationalist sentiments in her German readers. Three romances are analysed: Ein Held der Feder (1872), Sankt Michael and Heimatklang (1877).