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Women and writing in the works of Novalis : transformation beyond measure?

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Hodkinson, James R. (2007) Women and writing in the works of Novalis : transformation beyond measure? Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture . Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House. ISBN 9781571133762

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Abstract

The great poet and polymath Friedrich von Hardenberg, known as Novalis, was long seen as representing a particular brand of German Romanticism, embodying a predilection for the mystical and the irrational and a longing for death. Yet 20th-century scholars debunked that myth and arrived at a view of the poet as one who produced a unified, precociously modern body of work in which human systems of individual and collective being as well as knowledge and its disciplines exist as fictional structures, as represented possibility rather than fixed truth. As such, all being and knowledge could and should be subjected to the ironic play of Romantic poetry, which sought to renew the individual and the world it inhabited.Hardenberg's work has come in for particular criticism for idealizing women, thus denying the living, expressive female subject; the conservative social roles it ascribes to women are also cited. Although more recent critics have discerned an empowered female subject in Novalis, this is the first balanced, book-length study of gender in Novalis in English. It concludes that Hardenberg's Romantic writing began to be successful in reinventing the "fiction" of female identity, and goes further to reveal his extensive interaction with women as intellectual equals

Item Type: Book
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PT Germanic literature
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > German Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Novalis, 1772-1801 -- Criticism and interpretation, Women in literature
Series Name: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Publisher: Camden House
Place of Publication: Rochester, N.Y.
ISBN: 9781571133762
Official Date: 2007
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Number of Pages: 271
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access

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