Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture

Literary Joint Ventures, 1750-1850

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

659 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture challenges a model of literary production that persists in literary studies: the so-called Geniekult or the idea of the solitary male author as genius that emerged around 1800 in German lands. A closer look at creative practices during this time indicates that collaborative creative endeavors, specifically joint ventures between women and men, were an important mode of literary production during this era. This volume surveys a variety of such collaborations and proves that male and female spheres of creation were not as distinct as has been previously thought. It demonstrates that the model of the male genius that dominated literary studies for centuries was not inevitable, that viable alternatives to it existed. Finally, it demands that we rethink definitions of an author and a literary work in ways that account for the complex modes of creation from which they arose.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-02-25
Mått140 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt404 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Directions in German Studies
Antal sidor352
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501378331

Tillhör följande kategorier

Litteraturvetenskap inom Skonlitteratur
Genusvetenskap inom Samhalle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skonlitteratur

Laura Deiulio is Associate Professor of German at Christopher Newport University, USA. She has published essays on Lou Andreas-Salomé, Esther Gad, and Rahel Levin Varnhagen's correspondences with Pauline Wiesel and Auguste Brede.John B. Lyon is Professor of German at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is the author of Crafting Flesh, Crafting the Self: Violence and Identity in Early 19th Century German Literature (2006) and Out of Place: German Realism, Displacement, and Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2013).

Notes on Contributors AcknowledgementsIntroductionLaura Deiulio (Christopher Newport University) and John B. Lyon (University ofPittsburgh)1. The Gottscheds: Conjugal Authorship as a Disjointed VentureMargaretmary Daley (Case Western Reserve University, USA)2. A Dynamic Interplay: Cooperation between Sophie von La Roche, Christoph Martin Wieland, and Goethe on Their Way to AuthorshipMonika Nenon (University of Memphis, USA)3. "Collaborating with Spirits": Cagliostro, Elisa von der Recke, and the Phantoms of UnmündigkeitMichelle Stott James (Brigham Young University, USA) and Rob McFarland (Brigham Young University, USA)4. A Freedom Apart: Feminine Bildung in Sophie Mereau’s “Marie” and Amanda und EduardTom Spencer (Brigham Young University, USA) and Jennifer Jenson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA)5. Scenes from a Marriage: Friedrich and Dorothea Schlegel, Collaboration as Symphilosophy and AfterAdrian Daub (Stanford University, USA)6. Holy Hermaphrodite: The Collaboration Between Caroline and Friedrich de la Motte FouquéEleanor ter Horst (University of South Alabama, USA)7. Concepts of Collaboration: Märchenomas, the Woman Writer, and the Brothers GrimmJulie Koehler (Wayne State University, USA)8. A Meeting of Minds? The Dialogue Between Voices Female and Male in the Poems of the West-Eastern DivanCharlotte Lee (University of Cambridge, UK)9. The Correspondence of Rahel Levin Varnhagen and Ludwig Robert: Epistolary Writing as a Space for SymphilosophierenLaura Deiulio (Christopher Newport University, USA)10. Reflexive Authorship in Bettina Brentano-von Arnim’s Die Günderode: Narrative Disunity, Hölderlin, and GünderrodeKaren R. Daubert (Washington University, St. Louis, USA)11. “Where Words Are Not Enough": Audience and Authorship in the Marriage Diaries of Robert and Clara SchumannBrian Tucker (Wabash College, USA)12. Therese Robinson’s Die Auswanderer (1852) as Goethe’s Future Novel of AmericaJudith E. Martin (Missouri State University, USA)Index

Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture contains wide-ranging, thoroughly researched, socio-historically informed explorations of writing and publishing practices between 1750 and 1850 that challenge ingrained assumptions about gender and literary production. By framing authorship in terms of collaboration (as opposed to influence or competition), the volume’s contributors offer fresh insights into how 'authority' actually worked in the literary world of that period. The essays also provide valuable historical information about the ways in which gender operated in both the production and consumption of literary artifacts.