Novel affinities : composing the family in the German novel, 1795-1830 /
"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 has essentially collapsed the genre into the individualist Bildungsroman, exemplified by an extremely narrow canon. This study cha...
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| Language: | English |
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Rochester, New York :
Camden House,
2016.
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| Series: | Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: novel subjects, novel genealogies
- I. Models of generation
- The formation of the self: biology and pedagogy around 1800
- Cultivated resemblance: imitation and education in the novel
- II. Text as testament
- Direct testation: legal inheritance, plot inheritance, origin stories
- Indirect testation: documents, written culture, and the writing of life
- Conclusion: novel instability.