Inspiration Bonaparte? - German Culture and Napoleonic Occupation (Hardcover)

"In the Beginning was Napoleon"--"Napoleon and no end": Inspiration Bonaparte explores German responses to Bonaparte in literature, philosophy, painting, science, education, music, and film from his rise to the present. Two hundred years after his death, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) continues to resonate as a fascinating, ambivalent, and polarizing figure. Differences of opinion as to whether Bonaparte should be viewed as the executor of the principles of the French Revolution or as the figure who was principally responsible for their corruption are as pronounced today as they were at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Contributing to what had been an uneasy German relationship with the French Revolution, the rise of Bonaparte was accompanied by a pattern of Franco-German hostilities that inspired both enthusiastic support and outraged dissent in the German-speaking states. The fourteen essays that comprise Inspiration Bonaparte examine the mythologization of Napoleon in German literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and explore the significant impact of Napoleonic occupation on a broad range of fields including philosophy, painting, politics, the sciences, education, and film. As the contributions from leading scholars emphasize, the contradictory attitudes toward Bonaparte held by so many prominent German thinkers are a reflection of his enduring status as a figure through whom the trauma of shattered late-Enlightenment expectations of sociopolitical progress and evolving concepts of identity politics is mediated.

General

Imprint:	Camden House
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Release date:	September 2021
Editors:	Seán Allan • Jeffrey L High (Customer)
Contributors:	Andrew Cusack • Bernd Fischer (Contributor) • Elystan Griffiths • Wolf Kittler (Customer) • Susanne Kord • Elisabeth Krimmer (Series Editor) • Laura Anna Macor • Christian Moser
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	354
ISBN-13:	978-1-64014-094-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	1-64014-094-8
Barcode:	9781640140943

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