The emergence of the modern German novel : Christoph Martin Wieland, Sophie von La Roche, and Maria Anna Sagar
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The emergence of the modern German novel : Christoph Martin Wieland, Sophie von La Roche, and Maria Anna Sagar
（Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture / edited by James Hardin）
Camden House, 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-205) and index
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Description
A study of the rise of the German novel viewed from a feminist standpoint.
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, inconjunction, 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 andnarration 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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Powers of Desire: The Debate on the Novel in Eighteenth-Century Germany
The Pleasures of Fiction: Christoph Martin Weiland's Der Sieg der Natur uber die Schwarmerey oder Die Abentheuer des Don Sylvio von Rosalvades Don Sylvio von Rosalva
Seductive Strategies and the Promise of Knowledge: Wieland's Geschichte des Agathon
A Story of Her Own: Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Frauleins von Sternheim
Narrating Nothing: Maria Anna Sagar's Karolinens Tagebuch ohne ausserordentliche Handlungen, oder gerade so viel als gar keinegar keine
Epilogue: Caveat Lector
Works Consulted
Notes
Index
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