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Women and Writing in the Works of Novalis - Transformation beyond Measure? (Hardcover)
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Women and Writing in the Works of Novalis - Transformation beyond Measure? (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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A balanced study of gender in Novalis as expressed in his literary,
political, and scientific writings and in his letters. The great
poet and polymath Friedrich von Hardenberg, known as Novalis, was
long seen as representing a particular brand of German Romanticism,
embodying a predilection for the mystical and the irrational and a
longing for death.Yet 20th-century scholars debunked that myth and
arrived at a view of the poet as one who produced a unified,
precociously modern body of work in which human systems of
individual and collective being as well as knowledge and
itsdisciplines exist as fictional structures, as represented
possibility rather than fixed truth. As such, all being and
knowledge could and should be subjected to the ironic play of
Romantic poetry, which sought to renew the individual and the world
it inhabited. Hardenberg's work has come in for particular
criticism for idealizing women, thus denying the living, expressive
female subject; the conservative social roles it ascribes to women
are also cited. Although more recent critics have discerned an
empowered female subject in Novalis, this is the first balanced,
book-length study of gender in Novalis in English. It concludes
that Hardenberg's Romantic writing began to be successful in
reinventing the "fiction" of female identity, and goes further to
reveal his extensive interaction with women as intellectual equals.
James R. Hodkinson is Assistant Professor of German at the
University of Warwick, UK.
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