Acknowledgments
Introduction

Chapter 1
Clio and Calliope in the Age of German Historicism and Literary Realism

“Showing how it really has been:” Ranke’s Representation of History
Ranke’s Methodological Concept of Historie
Ranke’s “Rhetoric of Realism”
Making Sense of History: Ranke’s Use of Symbolic Structures
Ranke’s Construction of Plausibility through Perspicuitas
Ranke’s Use of Brevitas, Catalogues, and Enumeration
Archive Effects, Intertextuality, and Metaphors

Chapter 2
Literary Reactions to Scholarly Representations of History

Joseph Victor von Scheffel’s Historicist Novel
Calliope's Revival in Stifter’s Granit: Collecting as “Poesis”
The Poetics of Naming
Collecting as Recollection: Traces of Meaning in Stifter’s Granit

Chapter 3
Clio and Calliope in the Age of German Historicism and Literary Realism

The Interaction between Archeology and Literature.
Schliemann as the Enfant terrible of Scholarly Archeology
Professorenroman and Grand-Scale Archeology
Raabe’s Historical Fiction: Critical Reflections about Archeology
Schliemann’s Literal Excavations: Homer as a Source of History
Schaumann’s Archive of Literature
Narrative Strategies in Raabe’s and Schliemann’s Writing
The Effects of Positivistic Description in Schliemann’s Writing
Raabe: Narrative Experiments with Positivistic Description
Remembrance in Schliemann’s Archeological Research
Raabe: Archeology and Remembrance in Stopfkuchen

Chapter 4
Concepts of Nation in Academic History Writing and German Realist Prose

Droysen’s and Freytag’s Political Agenda
The Poetics of Transfiguration in Droysen’s and Freytag’s Writing
Building Nation: Droysen’s Use of Synecdoche
Building Nation: Freytag’s Use of Synecdoche in Soll und Haben
The Semantics of Ownership in Freytag’s and Droysen’s Writing
Droysen’s and Freytag’s Use of Dramatic Form
Excessive Ownership: Keller’s Critique of National Identity
The Discourse of Labor in Die drei gerechten Kammacher
Keller’s Poetics of Repetition
Keller’s Semantics of Ownership and Problems of Representation

Conclusion
Bibliography
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