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Women Against Napoleon
Although Prussia's beloved Queen Luise and the Swiss-born aristocrat and writer Germaine de Staël were Napoleon Bonaparte's best-known female opponents, women's discontent with Napoleon and the Napoleonic wars was more widespread--and vocal--than once assumed. Women against Napoleon expands our awareness of the range of women's responses to the despot by presenting an international spectrum of female opposition, including contemporary letters, diaries, and published writings, as well as historical fiction of the twentieth century. By setting these materials together, this volume forges new links between literary, historical, and gender scholarship.
Inspiration Bonaparte?
"In the Beginning was Napoleon"--"Napoleon and no end" Inspiration Bonaparte explores German responses to Bonaparte in literature, philosophy, painting, science, education, music, and film from his rise to the present. Two hundred years after his death, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) continues to resonate as a fascinating, ambivalent, and polarizing figure. Differences of opinion as to whether Bonaparte should be viewed as the executor of the principles of the French Revolution or as the figure who was principally responsible for their corruption are as pronounced today as they were at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Contributing to what had been an uneasy German relationship with t...
The Female Romantics
This study focuses on the dynamic interaction between Byron and Madame de Staël, Lady Morgan, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen; and the reaction to Byronism of the Brontës and Harriet Beecher Stowe. It thus challenges previous critics' segregation of the male Romantic poets from their female peers, whose agenda was perceived to be different: domestic and social.
Germaine de Staël in Germany
Germaine de Staël and German Women: Gender and Literary Authority (1800-1850) investigates Staël's significance as an icon of female artistic genius and political engagement for two generations of German women, including Caroline A. Fischer, Caroline Pichler, Johanna Schopenhauer, Bettina von Arnim, Ida Hahn-Hahn, and Luise Mühlbach. These authors drew a significant impetus from Staël's exemplary life and writings, especially her influential novels of political and artistic heroines, Delphine (1802) and Corinne, or Italy (1807), referring to them in order to authorize their own discourses on art and politics, and to buttress their identity as writers in a period when female authorship ge...
Marie Von Clausewitz
Bellinger capitalizes on the recent discovery of a vast archive of material to produce the first complete biography of Marie von Clausewitz
Schwesterherz - Schwesterschmerz
Die Beziehung zu unserer Schwester ist mitunter die längste unseres Lebens. Ihre Besonderheiten, Schönes und Schmerzliches fangen Corinna Onnen-Isemann und Gertrud Maria Rösch ein. Mithilfe vieler Beispiele sensibilisieren sie für dieses bedeutsame Beziehungsgeflecht und zeigen Wege für einen einvernehmlichen Umgang auf.
Revisiting Prussia's Wars against Napoleon
In 2013, Germany celebrated the bicentennial of the so-called Wars of Liberation (1813–15). These wars were the culmination of the Prussian struggle against Napoleon between 1806 and 1815, which occupied a key position in German national historiography and memory. Although these conflicts have been analyzed in thousands of books and articles, much of the focus has been on the military campaigns and alliances. Karen Hagemann argues that we cannot achieve a comprehensive understanding of these wars and their importance in collective memory without recognizing how the interaction of politics, culture, and gender influenced these historical events and continue to shape later recollections of them. She thus explores the highly contested discourses and symbolic practices by which individuals and groups interpreted these wars and made political claims, beginning with the period itself and ending with the centenary in 1913.
Clavis Scientiae
In der diachronen Studie werden Texte vom 17. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert untersucht, mit dem Ziel, die literarische Verschlüsselung als eine Form der Vermittlung von Faktizität und Fiktionalität im größeren Kontext zweier kultureller Praktiken, der kabbalistisch inspirierten Steganographie sowie der Kryptographie, zu erfassen. Am höfisch-historischen Roman (u.a. M. Opitz/J. Barclay, »Argenis«; Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig und Lüneburg, »Die römische Octavia«) wird der Verlauf der referentialisierenden Lektüre untersucht. Im 18. Jahrhundert verbindet sich das 'Prinzip Schlüssel' mit der Satire bzw. dem Pasquill (Chr.F. Hunold, »Satyrischer Roman«, Chr.M. Wieland, »Die Geschicht...
The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars: Volume 3, Experience, Culture and Memory
Volume III of the Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars moves away from the battlefield to explore broader questions of society and culture. Leading scholars from around the globe show how the conflict left its mark on virtually every aspect of society. They reflect on the experience of the soldiers who fought in them, examining such matters as military morale, ideas of honour and masculinity, the treatment of wounds and the fate of prisoners-of-war; and they explore social issues such as the role of civilians, women's experience, trans-border encounters and the roots of armed resistance. They also demonstrates how the experience of war was inextricably linked to empire and the wider world. Individual chapters discuss the depiction of the Wars in literature and the arts and their lasting impact on European culture. The volume concludes by examining the memory of the Wars and their legacy for the nineteenth-century world.
The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600
To date, the history of military and war has focused predominantly on men as historical agents, disregarding gender and its complex interrelationships with war and the military. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600 investigates how conceptions of gender have contributed to the shaping of war and the military and were transformed by them. Covering the major periods in warfare since the seventeenth century, the Handbook focuses on Europe and the long-term processes of colonization and empire-building in the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia. Thirty-two essays written by leading international scholars explore the cultural representations of war and the militar...
