Gender, collaboration, and authorship in German culture : literary joint ventures, 1750-1850 / edited by Laura Deiulio and John B. Lyon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Deiulio, Laura Christine, 1967- editor.

Lyon, John B., 1966- editor.

Series:

New directions in German studies ; v. 27.

New directions in German studies ; vol. 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--18th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

German literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Authorship--Collaboration--History--18th century.

Authorship.

Authorship--Collaboration--History--19th century.

Authorship--Collaboration.

History.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)--History--18th century.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)--History--19th century.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--History--18th century.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--History--19th century.

Man-woman relationships--Germany--History--18th century.

Man-woman relationships.

Man-woman relationships--Germany--History--19th century.

Germany.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 332 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

"Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture challenges a model of literary production that persists in literary studies: the so-called Geniekult or the idea of the solitary male author as genius that emerged around 1800 in German lands. A closer look at creative practices during this time indicates that collaborative creative endeavors, specifically joint ventures between women and men, were an important mode of literary production during this era. This volume surveys a variety of such collaborations and proves that male and female spheres of creation were not as distinct as has been previously thought. It demonstrates that the model of the male genius that dominated literary studies for centuries was not inevitable, that viable alternatives to it existed. Finally, it demands that we rethink definitions of an author and a literary work in ways that account for the complex modes of creation from which they arose"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Gottscheds : conjugal authorship as a disjointed venture / Margaretmary Daley

A dynamic interplay : cooperation between Sophie von la Roche, Christoph Martin Wieland, and Goethe on their way to authorship / Monika Nenon

"Collaborating with spirits" : Cagliostro, Elisa von der Recke, and the phantoms of Unmündigkeit / Michelle Stott James and Rob McFarland

A freedom apart : feminine Bildung in Sophie Mereau's "Marie" and Amanda und Eduard / Tom Spencer and Jennifer Jenson

Scenes from a marriage : Friedrich and Dorothea Schlegel, collaboration as symphilosophy and after / Adrian Daub

Holy hermaphrodite : the collaboration between Caroline and Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué / Eleanor ter Horst

Concepts of collaboration : Märchenomas, the woman writer, and the Brothers Grimm / Julie Koehler

A meeting of minds? the dialogue between voices female and male in the poems of the West-Eastern Divan / Charlotte Lee

The correspondence of Rahel Levin Varnhagen and Ludwig Robert : epistolary writing as a space for symphilosophieren / Laura Deiulio

Reflexive authorship in Bettina Brentano-von Arnim's Die Günderode : narrative disunity, Hölderlin, and Günderrode / Karen R. Daubert

"Where words are not enough" : audience and authorship in the marriage diaries of Robert and Clara Schumann / Brian Tucker

Therese Robinson's Die Auswanderer (1852) as Goethe's Future novel of America / Judith E. Martin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Gender, collaboration, and authorship in German culture

ISBN:

9781501351006

1501351001

OCLC:

1098219651