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Author:

Schlipphacke, Heidi M., author.

Title:

The aesthetics of kinship : form and family in the long eighteenth century / Heidi Schlipphacke.

Publisher:

Bucknell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

xiii, 335 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

1700-1799
Families in literature.
German literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Families--Germany--History--History--18th century.
Criticism.
History.
Civilization.
Families in literature.
Families--Philosophy.
German literature.
Intellectual life.
Germany--Civilization--18th century.
Germany--Intellectual life--18th century.
Germany.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Middle class/Bourgeois/Bürger: the Idiosyncrasies of German dramatic realism -- Tableau/Tableau vivant: German-French dramatic encounters -- The German dramatic tableau beyond Lessing -- Against interiority: letters and portraits as dramatic props -- Material kinship: the economy of props in G.E. Lessing's Nathan der Weise -- The tableau of relations: novels in stillness and motion -- Kinship and aesthetic depth: The tableau vivant in Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften.

Summary:

"The Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into established discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and the corresponding interior subject in the eighteenth century. By focusing on kinship constellations instead of "family plots" in seminal literary works of the period, this book presents an alternative view of the eighteenth-century literary social world and its concomitant ideologies. Whereas Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment philosophy and political theory posit the nuclear family as a microcosm for the ideal modern nation-state, literature of the period offers a far more heterogeneous image of kinship structures, one that includes members of various classes and is not defined by blood. Through a radical re-reading of the multifarious kinship structures represented in literature of the long eighteenth century, The Aesthetics of Kinship questions the inevitability of the dialectic of the Enlightenment and invokes alternative futures for conceptions of social and political life"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

New studies in the age of Goethe

ISBN:

1684484545
9781684484546
1684484537
9781684484539

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1332886433

LCCN:

2022010611

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)