Professor novel

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A professor's novel is a type of cultural-historical novel that was produced by scholars, particularly in German literature in the second half of the 19th century .

Since the authors were not able to design the material in a particularly artistic way, the professor's novel was often pompous and kitschy in its style . A positivist description of history also often paralyzed the novel.

Felix Dahn ( A Battle for Rome ) was probably the best-known writer of professorial novels. Other typical representatives of this direction are Georg Ebers and Gustav Freytag with the novels Ahnen und Soll und haben, which were widely read in the 19th century .

literature

  • Otto Kraus: The professor's novel. Henninger, Heilbronn 1884 (Zeitfragen des Christian Volksleben, Vol. 9, H. 4; online ).