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The emergence of the modern German novel : Christoph Martin Wieland, Sophie von La Roche, and Maria Anna Sagar / Claire Baldwin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baldwin, Claire.
- Series:
- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sagar, Maria Anna, 1727-1805.
- La Roche, Sophie von, 1731-1807.
- Wieland, Christoph Martin, 1733-1813.
- German fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- German fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Bildungsromans--History and criticism.
- Wieland, Christoph Martin, 1733-1813--Criticism and interpretation.
- Wieland, Christoph Martin.
- La Roche, Sophie von, 1731-1807--Criticism and interpretation.
- La Roche, Sophie von.
- Sagar, Maria Anna, 1727-1805--Criticism and interpretation.
- Sagar, Maria Anna.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, NY ; Woodbridge, UK : Camden House, 2002.
- Summary:
- A study of the rise of the German novel viewed from a feminist standpoint.
- Contents:
- 1 The Powers of Desire: The Debate on the Novel in Eighteenth-Century Germany 13
- Theoretical Discourse on the Novel 14
- Images of Readers and Their Desires 26
- Anthropology, Literature, Gender 29
- 2 The Pleasures of Fiction: Christoph Martin Wieland's Der Sieg der Natur uber die Schwarmerey oder Die Abentheuer des Don Sylvio von Rosalva 38
- The Demands of Reading: a Satirical Preface 41
- The Female Quixote: Donna Mencia as Adversary of the Narrative 46
- Symbolic Siblings 53
- Hyacinthe's Tales of Virtue 54
- Don Sylvio's Tales of Enchantment 58
- Little Pedro's Old Wives' Tales 62
- Narrative Reliability: "Biribinker" 70
- 3 Seductive Strategies and the Promise of Knowledge: Wieland's Geschichte des Agathon 73
- Seductive Arts: Agathon's Aesthetic Education 77
- Danae's Autobiographical Tale: A Model Poetic Narrative 85
- Telling Tales of Virtue 93
- 4 A Story of Her Own: Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Frauleins von Sternheim 103
- Wieland's Preface 105
- The Female Editor 112
- Virtue Rewarded or Virtue Betrayed? 113
- "A New Genre of Character" 121
- Compiling Sternheim's Story 128
- The Legitimation of Desire 137
- 5 Narrating Nothing: Maria Anna Sagar's Karolinens Tagebuch ohne ausserordentliche Handlungen, oder gerade so viel als gar keine 141
- Defining the "Nothing" of the Novel 143
- The Writing Heroine Karoline 146
- Stories of Silence: The Adventures of Eleonora Lusani 150
- "The History of the Duchess v. ***" 155
- Karoline's Authorial Profiles 160
- Karoline's Conflicting Plots of Authorship and Marriage 167
- Disclosing the Fiction of Marriage as Closure 169.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-205) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1571131671
- OCLC:
- 48711396
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