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Composite selves : subjecthood in the German novel, 1700-1795 /

Composite Selves contributes to studies of the novel rooted in but continuing beyond the eighteenth century by reflecting on the ways in which a broad corpus of German-language novels reveals the self as composite. It uses detailed literary analysis to trace the changing and contingent models of sel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eldridge, Sarah Vandegrift (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Series:Approaches to the novel.
Subjects:
German fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 18th century > History and criticism.
Self in literature.
Roman allemand > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Europe.
HISTORY.
LITERARY CRITICISM.
Renaissance.
German fiction > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > History and criticism.
Self in literature
Literature: history & criticism.
Literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Composite Selves: Subjecthood in the German Novel, 1700-1795
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Composite Selves
  • Interior Whiteness
  • Methods of Reading
  • 1: Novel Narratives
  • The European Novel in the Eighteenth Century
  • The German Novel in the Eighteenth Century-Authors, Markets, and Readers
  • Scholarly Narratives and Literary Landscapes
  • Organic Essentialism across Disciplines
  • Race in the Eighteenth Century
  • Novel Interiorities
  • Eighteenth-Century Environments: Culture and Contexts
  • 2: Outward-Facing Selves: Advancing in Politics and Love
  • Prologue: Der Raffinirte Statist (1645 [?] and 1709)
  • Gallant Novels
  • Honesty and Dissimulation
  • Bodies, Performances, and Tokens
  • Language of Love and Attraction
  • The Self in Politics
  • Epilogue: Gellert's Leben der schwedischen Gräfin von G*** (1748)
  • 3: Relational Selves: Robinsonaden and the Entanglements of Subjecthood
  • Analytical Lenses for Reading Robinsonaden
  • Robinson in (Eighteenth-Century) Theory: Wezel's Krusoe
  • Social Relations: Possibilities in a Corrupted Europe
  • Power Relations: Qualifications for Anthropological Subjecthood
  • Endings: Relational Subjects and Insular Retreats
  • 4: Interior Selves: Morality, Sentiment, and the Emergence of Organic Essentialism
  • Genre Transitions
  • Interior Selves and Social Contexts
  • Interior Selves and the Beloved
  • Impossible Interiorities
  • Conclusion: Modern "Selfhood"
  • Conclusion: Toward Ethical Subjectivities
  • Bibliography
  • Index.