Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-330) and index.
Introduction : made in Germany, read in America -- German women writers at home and abroad -- "Family likenesses" : Marlitt's texts as American books -- The German art of the happy ending : embellishing and expanding the boundaries of home -- Enduring domesticity : German novels of remarriage -- Feminized history : German men in American translation -- Family matters in postbellum America : Ann Mary Crittenden Coleman (1813-91) -- German fiction clothed in "so brilliant a garb" : Annis Lee Wister (1830-1908) -- Germany at twenty-five cents a copy : Mary Stuart Smith (1834-1917)