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Novel Affinities - Composing the Family in the German Novel, 1795-1830 (Hardcover)
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Novel Affinities - Composing the Family in the German Novel, 1795-1830 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Challenges traditional novel scholarship that emphasizes the
individual and the Bildungsroman, broadening the focus to the
family and both canonical and non-canonical novels, reading them
together with biological, legal and pedagogical texts. The novel,
according to standard scholarly narratives, depicts an individual's
path to maturity. Scholarship on the rise of the novel in Germany
and in Europe more broadly, from Watt to Moretti, has essentially
collapsed the genreinto the individualist Bildungsroman,
exemplified by a narrow canon. This study challenges and nuances
these narratives, first by expanding the focus from the individual
to the family, second by broadening the field of novels treated to
include not only canonical works but also so-called trivial
literature, and third, by reading novels alongside contemporary
biological, legal, and pedagogical texts. This perspective reveals
that the novel and the family around 1800 were mutually
constitutive and that the two together were instrumental in the
development of conceptions of individuality, kinship, and society
that are still relevant today. Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge reads
novels by Goethe, Wolzogen, Engel, Karoline Fischer, August
Lafontaine, and Brentano, showing that they exhibit varying degrees
of "imaginative didacticism": suggestions not of what to think and
feel, but that thinking and feeling in reaction to literature are
central to cultural practices of self-reflection and development.
The family is a crucial locus for this practice, and reading novels
together with nonliterary texts illuminates how they experiment
productively with the infinite possibilities presented by the
relationships they portray. Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge is Associate
Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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