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Composite selves : subjecthood in the German novel, 1700-1795.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eldridge, Sarah Vandegrift, author.
- Series:
- Approaches to the novel.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Approaches to the novel
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- German fiction.
- Literature, Modern--18th century--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Bildungsromans, German--History and criticism.
- Bildungsromans, German.
- Robinsonades--History and criticism.
- Robinsonades.
- Self in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- 'Composite Selves' tells a new story about the German novel in the eighteenth century, engaging with and challenging scholarly narratives that ignore the earlier decades of the 1700s and focus only on the 'modern' novel associated with essentialist notions of selfhood.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Composite Selves: Subjecthood in the German Novel, 1700-1795
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction: Composite Selves
- Interior Whiteness
- Methods of Reading
- 1: Novel Narratives
- The European Novel in the Eighteenth Century
- The German Novel in the Eighteenth Century-Authors, Markets, and Readers
- Scholarly Narratives and Literary Landscapes
- Organic Essentialism across Disciplines
- Race in the Eighteenth Century
- Novel Interiorities
- Eighteenth-Century Environments: Culture and Contexts
- 2: Outward-Facing Selves: Advancing in Politics and Love
- Prologue: Der Raffinirte Statist (1645 [?] and 1709)
- Gallant Novels
- Honesty and Dissimulation
- Bodies, Performances, and Tokens
- Language of Love and Attraction
- The Self in Politics
- Epilogue: Gellert's Leben der schwedischen Gräfin von G*** (1748)
- 3: Relational Selves: Robinsonaden and the Entanglements of Subjecthood
- Analytical Lenses for Reading Robinsonaden
- Robinson in (Eighteenth-Century) Theory: Wezel's Krusoe
- Social Relations: Possibilities in a Corrupted Europe
- Power Relations: Qualifications for Anthropological Subjecthood
- Endings: Relational Subjects and Insular Retreats
- 4: Interior Selves: Morality, Sentiment, and the Emergence of Organic Essentialism
- Genre Transitions
- Interior Selves and Social Contexts
- Interior Selves and the Beloved
- Impossible Interiorities
- Conclusion: Modern "Selfhood"
- Conclusion: Toward Ethical Subjectivities
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 22, 2025).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-897983-5
- 0-19-897980-0
- OCLC:
- 1541775862
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