The Individualization of Fortune in the Sixteenth-Century Novels of Jorg Wickram: The Beginnings of the Modern Narrative in Germ

This book is an examination of the concept of Fortune in the narratives of sixteenth-century German writer, Jorg Wickram. He saw fortune, not only as an external force acting in conjunction with or competing with divine agency, but also as a force within the human mind; it was this innovative understanding which set him apart from his contemporaries and lent originality to his literature.