The Aesthetics of Kinship : : Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century /

The Aesthetics of Kinship : : Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century / / Heidi Schlipphacke.

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 pr...

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Schlipphacke, Heidi,
Place / Publishing House:Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:New Studies in the Age of Goethe
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Physical Description:1 online resource (354 p.) :; 1 b-w illus., 5 color illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE Middle Class/Bourgeois/Bürger: The Idiosyncrasies of German Dramatic Realism
  • CHAPTER TWO Tableau/Tableau Vivant: German-French Dramatic Encounters
  • CHAPTER THREE The German Dramatic Tableau beyond Lessing
  • CHAPTER FOUR Against Interiority: Letters and Portraits as Dramatic Props
  • CHAPTER FIVE Material Kinship: The Economy of Props in G. E. Lessing’s Nathan der Weise
  • CHAPTER SIX The Tableau of Relations: Novels in Stillness and Motion
  • CHAPTER SEVEN Kinship and Aesthetic Depth: The Tableau Vivant in Goethe’s Wahlverwandtschaften [Elective Affinities]
  • Concluding Reflections
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the author

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