The Emergence of the Modern German Novel

Christoph Martin Wieland, Sophie von La Roche, and Maria Anna Sagar

By:

Claire Baldwin

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture

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This book treats both the literary history of the modern German novel and theoretical considerations about gender and 18th-century narrative strategies. It attempts to overcome a two-fold division in scholarship by treating Christoph Martin Wieland's Geschichte des Agathon and Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Frauleins von Sternheim, the two novels generally considered to be foundational in the development of the German Bildungsroman, in conjunction, rather than as examples of unrelated traditions, and by considering the reciprocal influence of fictional and theoretical writing dealing with the developing genre of the modern German novel. Baldwin also examines Wieland's Don Sylvio and Maria Anna Sagar's Karolinens Tagebuch and analyzes how gender as a relative construct functions in each of the four texts. In so doing she shows how the new German novel of the 1770s aligns reading and narrative practices with gendered attributes to establish narrative authority and cultural legitimacy for the new stories of identity they explore. The interpretations proceed from an analysis of the ways that reading and narration are represented in the novels, and in their poetological prefaces, to show that the texts take up, challenge, and contribute to contemporary literary and social theories of the novel.Claire Baldwin is assistant professor of German at Colgate Unversity in Hamilton, New York.

Release date NZ

May 15th, 2002

Author

Claire Baldwin

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Country of Publication

United States

Illustrations

1 Illustrations, black and white

Imprint

Camden House Inc

Pages

272

Publisher

Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Series

Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture

Dimensions

163x235x23

ISBN-13

9781571131676

Product ID

2058266

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