Time, Place, and Religion

This essay tries to contextualize a very popular nineteenth-century literary genre – Dorfgeschichten , village tales – from the standpoint of a historian. 1 It considers two of the most widely read exemplars of the genre – Berthold Auerbach’s Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten and Alban Stolz’s Kalender für Zeit und Ewigkeit , and places them in relation to a third: Johann Peter Hebel’s Rheinisches Schatzkästlein . The essay argues that it makes sense to approach this genre from the early nineteenth-century context – temporal, spatial, and religious – that formed it rather than from problems, such as industrialization, encountered in a later time. It also argues for due consideration of historical concreteness over strict considerations of genre

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