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Goethe's Elective Affinities and the End of the Old Regime
Peter J. Schwartz
ISBN: 9780838757192
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Associated University Presses
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The first scholarly work in English to set Goethes influential and controversial novel Elective Affinities within the turbulent time in which it was written and explores the era of rapid modernization following Prussia's defeat at the battle of Jena-Auers
After Jena is the first scholarly work in English to set Goethes influential and controversial novel Elective Affinities squarely within the turbulent time in which it was written. Peter Schwartz explores the era of rapid modernization following Prussia's defeat at the battle of Jena-Auerstedt (1806) - a battle that permitted Napoleon French hegemony throughout continental Europe and to dissolve or reform the institutional structures of the German ancient regime. Adducing evidence from many spheres and applying the tools of several disciplines Schwartz persuasively shows how Elective Affinities reflects post-Jena changes in marriage, property and inheritance law and in the political role of the German nobility. He links questions of character, fate and sacrifice in the novel to modem problems of sovereignty and legitimacy and investigates how key scenes in the novel comment implicitly on Napoleon, Rousseau, the French Revolution, and the politics and aesthetics of the German Romantics. After Jena reveals the novel's ethical core to be a calculus of political legitimacy, and its aesthetics a means of conciliating tensions provoked by modernity's onrush. It will be of special interest to students of literature, history, philosophy, art history and aesthetics.
| ISBN | 0838757197 | | Pages | 360 | | ISBN13 | 9780838757192
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Associated University Presses | | Weight (grammes) | 635 | | Imprint | Bucknell University Press,U.S. | | Published in | Cranbury | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Publication date | 15 Feb 2010 | | Width (mm) | 155 | | Library of Congress | 2009006910 | | Spine width (mm) | 30 | | DEWEY | 833.6 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| Ch. 1 | | Goethe's Elective Affinities and the End of the Old Regime | | 15 | | Ch. 2 | | Why Did Goethe Marry When He Did? | | 40 | | Ch. 3 | | And What Does That Have to Do with Elective Affinities? | | 52 | | Ch. 4 | | Eduard's Egotism | | 68 | | Ch. 5 | | One's Own Fate | | 92 | | Ch. 6 | | Urworte. Politisch: Goethe's and Napoleon's Iconographies of Fortune | | 127 | | Ch. 7 | | The Ottilie Effect: The Relocated Lusthaus and the Trial of Charles I | | 149 | | Ch. 8 | | The Failure of Sacrifice: Goethe's Ottilie, Rousseau's Nouvelle Heloise | | 165 | | Ch. 9 | | Schauen and Glauben; or, The Moral of the Story | | 211 | | | | Notes | | 235 | | | | Bibliography | | 320 | | | | Index | | 351 |
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