Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213) and index
Dissertation, University of Sheffield, 2011
Introduction -- Towards a national community: the Vormärz poetry -- Defining class identities: the Vormärz dramas -- Revolution and reaction: literary practice and the bourgeois cause in the Nachmärz -- Present pasts: history, Bildung, and the Volkskraft -- Writing unification: love as an exercise in nation-building -- Conclusion