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The Wasting Heroine in German Fiction by Women 1770-1914
In this broad-ranging study of German fiction by women between 1770-1914, the author aims to add a new dimension to existing debates on the association of women and illness in literature. She constructs a history of women's self-starvation, eating behaviour and wasting diseases.
Public Voices
This book examines the possibilities of political theorizing in the writings of early nineteenth-century German women and develops a new theory of reading women's domestic fiction. Drawing on feminism, new historicism, and hermeneutics for its theoretical framework, the study suggests significant changes to Jürgen Habermas's concept of the public sphere and women's role within it. The book re-evaluates the genre of domestic fiction and traces its use by women writers for political symbolism. Through novels, educational treatises, conduct manuals, poetry, and history books for women and children Caroline Fouqué, the principal voice in this study, and other authors of the period participated in the key debates of the early nineteenth century, among them the anguished discussions about the crisis in masculinity after the defeat of the Prussian army in 1806, the discourses of national identity, the construction of a national past, and the reorganization of the feudal state.
Von Menschen und Mächten
Der Briefwechsel zwischen Stefan George und Karl und Hanna Wolfskehl ist der einzige der Georges gesamte Lebenszeit begleitet. Die tiefe Freundschaft zwischen den beiden Dichtern, die aus ihren Briefen spricht, die Offenheit des Austauschs und die Bezüge der Korrespondenz zur allgemeinen Kultur- und Literaturgeschichte zwischen Jahrhundertwende und Ende der Weimarer Republik machen aus dieser Edition eine Quelle von einzigartigem Wert. Die sorgfältige, gründlich kommentierte Edition umfasst insgesamt 860 Korrespondenzstücke, die im Stefan George Archiv Stuttgart lagern. Den Briefwechsel zeichnen nicht nur Dauer (1892–1933) und Intensität aus, sondern auch die sehr persönliche Einbeziehung von Hanna Wolfskehl. Diese ganz eigene Verbindung zwischen George und der Frau des Freundes ist in der Forschung bislang weitgehend unbekannt. Wer sich für das literarische München um die Jahrhundertwende, für Schwabinger Umtriebe, für Liebe, Dichtung, Freundschaft und Verrat im Umfeld der Korrespondenzpartner interessiert, wird dieses Werk mit großem Gewinn lesen.
Writing the Self, Creating Community
This volume examines the world of German women writers who emerged in the burgeoning literary marketplace of eighteenth-century Europe.
Die Pathologie der Liebe
Der "Pathologie der Liebe" liegt der Befund zugrunde, daß in den Romanen von Frauen um 1800 die Heldinnen mit auffälliger Häufigkeit an ihrer Liebe und an dem damit verbundenen Weiblichkeitsideal erkranken und sterben. Die Texte der heute vergessenen Autorinnen Fanny Tarnow und Caroline von Fouqué sind von dem Widerspruch zwischen Glücksversprechen und Leiderfahrung auf exemplarische Weise gezeichnet und zeigen, daß das bürgerliche Liebesideal trotz seines fast zweihundert Jahre anhaltenden Erfolgs von Anfang an unlebbar war. Die vorliegende Studie stellt einen neuen Schlüssel zum Roman von Frauen um 1800 dar.
The Idea of World Literature
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe introduced the concept of Weltliteratur in 1827 to describe the growing availability of texts from other nations. Although the term "World Literature" is widely used today, there is little agreement on what it means and even less awareness of its evolution. In this wide-ranging work, John Pizer traces the concept of Weltliteratur in Germany beginning with Goethe and continuing through Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels to the present as he explores its importation into the United States in the 1830s and the teaching of World Literature in U.S. classrooms since the early twentieth century. Pizer demonstrates the concept's ongoing viability through an in...
Stefan George und sein Kreis
Das Handbuch stellt Leben und Werk Stefan Georges umfassend dar und behandelt die internen Vernetzungen seines Kreises sowie seine externe Rezeption. Erstmals liegt damit ein verlässliches Kompendium für die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit Stefan George und seinem Kreis vor. Die Forschung wird kritisch gesichtet, und Desiderate werden markiert; die bio-bibliographischen Grundlagen werden neu gesichert und zahlreiche Rezeptionszeugnisse erstmals ausgewertet. Dem Wirken Georges und seines Kreises, das in vielfältige Bereiche des geistig-kulturellen, wissenschaftlichen und politischen Lebens ausstrahlte, entspricht das interdisziplinäre und diskursgeschichtlich orientierte Konzept ...
The Jewess Pallas Athena
"The Jewess Pallas Athena"--a line from a poem by Paul Celan. It is a provocative phrase, cutting across cultures and traditions. But it poses questions: How to reconstruct a culture that has been destroyed? How to conceive of history after the catastrophes of the twentieth century? This book begins in the mid-eighteenth century with the first Jewish women to raise their voices in German. It ends two hundred years later, with another group of Jewish women looking back at a country from which they had been expelled and to which they would never want to return. Among the many prominent female intellectuals and literary figures Barbara Hahn discusses are Hannah Arendt, Gertrud Kantorowicz, Rosa...
German Literature, Jewish Critics
Proceedings of the Brandeis conference on Jewish Germanists who fled Nazi Germany and their impact on Anglo-American German studies. Among the Jewish academics and intellectuals expelled from Germany and Austria during the Nazi era were many specialists in German literature. Strangely, their impact on the practice of Germanistik in the United States, England, and Canada has been given little attention. Who were they? Did their vision of German literature and culture differ significantly from that of those who remained in their former homeland? What problems did they face in theAmerican and British academic settings? Above all, how did they help shape German studies in the postwar era? This u...
Poetic Fragments
Bilingual English-German edition of second collection published by the German poet, dramatist, and philosopher Karoline von Günderrode (17801806). The second collection of writings by the German poet, dramatist, and philosopher Karoline von Günderrode (17801806), Poetic Fragments was published in 1805 under the pseudonym Tian. Günderrodes work is an unmined source of insight into German Romanticism and Idealism, as well as into the reception of Indian, Persian, and Islamic thought in Europe. Anna C. Ezekiels introductions highlight the philosophical significance of the texts, demonstrating their radical and original consideration of the nature of the universe, death, religion,...
