Excerpt from The Attitude of Gustav Freytag and Julian Schmidt Toward English Literature (1848-1862) Julian Schmidt's views on Walter Scott's literary influence on historical method, on novelistic technique and form, on the modern Dorfgeschichte, on the choice of characters from productive classes of society. Julian Schmidt's views regarding Scott compared with those of other German critics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.