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The aesthetics of kinship : form and family in the long eighteenth century / Heidi Schlipphacke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schlipphacke, Heidi M., author.
- Series:
- New Studies in the Age of Goethe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- Families in literature.
- Families--Germany--Philosophy--History--18th century.
- Families.
- Germany--Civilization--18th century.
- Germany.
- Germany--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (355 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "The Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into rigidified 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.
- Contents:
- Middle class/Bourgeois/Bürger: the Idiosyncrasies of German dramatic realism
- Tableau/Tableau vivant: German-French dramatic encounters
- Thee 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 still ness and motion
- Kinship and aesthetic depth: The tableau vivant in Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-68448-455-3
- 1-68448-457-X
- OCLC:
- 1351749438
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