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- catalog abstract ""Renate Welsh's novel is a story about a woman's unsuccessful quest to build a home, to determine an identity. It is based on family documents of the author's great-great-grandfather, a representative in the Frankfurt constitutive Assembly and one of the leaders of the failed revolution of 1848 in Germany. He and his son eventually emigrated to the United States. The writings and correspondence of these two men appear in their original form in the novel, indicated by italics. The female protagonist, Pauline, is married to the son. There are no letters preserved from her, so the author lends Pauline a voice and attempts to correct an injustic done to this woman of the nineteenth century, the injustice of misunderstanding her, of forgetting her, or of never having taken note of her in the first place. Welsh rejects an omnipotent narrative perspective and instead engages in a conversaion with her protagonist. The two very different voices are layered one upon the other in the novel, and their juxtaposition creates a formal dialogic structure. Welsh situates the documentary materials within a fictional context. Thus fiction stands side by side with fact, subjective conjecture with objective statement. Pauline's story ends in insanity in 1855"--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Lufthaus. English".
- catalog contributor b12620126.
- catalog contributor b12620127.
- catalog contributor b12620128.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""Renate Welsh's novel is a story about a woman's unsuccessful quest to build a home, to determine an identity. It is based on family documents of the author's great-great-grandfather, a representative in the Frankfurt constitutive Assembly and one of the leaders of the failed revolution of 1848 in Germany. He and his son eventually emigrated to the United States. The writings and correspondence of these two men appear in their original form in the novel, indicated by italics. The female protagonist, Pauline, is married to the son.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "There are no letters preserved from her, so the author lends Pauline a voice and attempts to correct an injustic done to this woman of the nineteenth century, the injustice of misunderstanding her, of forgetting her, or of never having taken note of her in the first place. Welsh rejects an omnipotent narrative perspective and instead engages in a conversaion with her protagonist. The two very different voices are layered one upon the other in the novel, and their juxtaposition creates a formal dialogic structure. Welsh situates the documentary materials within a fictional context. Thus fiction stands side by side with fact, subjective conjecture with objective statement. Pauline's story ends in insanity in 1855"--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "314 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "House of cards.".
- catalog identifier "1572411090".
- catalog isFormatOf "House of cards.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought. Translation series".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng ger".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Riverside, Calif. : Ariadne Press,".
- catalog relation "House of cards.".
- catalog subject "833/.914 21".
- catalog subject "PT2685.E575 L8413 2002".
- catalog title "A house of cards / Renate Welsh ; translated by Linda C. DeMeritt and Beth Bjorklund ; afterword by Linda C. DeMeritt ; historical overview by Ruth A. Kittner.".
- catalog title "Lufthaus. English".
- catalog type "text".