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media Saxony galanterie thesis festival culture Literatures of
Germanic languages eighteenth century This thesis concerns the
function of fiction in the creation of an historical myth and
the uses that that myth is put to in a number of periods and
differing régimes. Its case study is the popular myth of August
the Strong (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, as
a man of extraordinary sexual prowess and the ruler over a
magnificent, but frivolous, court in Dresden. It examines the
origins of this myth in the late seventeenth and early
eighteenth century, and its development up to the twenty-first
century in German history writing, fiction, art, and media. The
image August created for himself in the art, literature, and
festivities of his court as an ideal ruler of extremely broad
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