Debit and Credit

by Gustav Freytag · first published 1855

Debit and Credit (German: Soll und Haben, 1855) is a novel in six volumes by Gustav Freytag. It was one of the most popular and widely read German novels of the 19th century. The novel has been described as a “colonial novel”, an example of the broader trend of German nationalist Ostmarkenliteratur ("Eastern March literataure", a name of the area in terms of its geographic relation to the 'centre', suggesting medieval phenomena such as the Saxon Eastern March) concerning Prussian and German-ruled Greater Poland region, related to popular German colonial narratives. 'Reinventing Poland as German colonial territory' according to Kristin Kopp.

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Original language:

German

Year page:

1855