The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century

355 Pages·2023·25.814 MB·English

by  Heidi Schlipphacke

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T H E A E S T H E T I C S
O F K I N S H I P
Form and Family in the Long
Eigh teenth C entury
Heidi Schlipphacke
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Schlipphacke, Heidi M., author.
Title: The aesthetics of kinship : form and family in the long
eighteenth century / Heidi Schlipphacke.
Description: Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2023] | Series:
New studies in the age of Goethe | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022010611 | ISBN 9781684484539 (paperback) |
ISBN 9781684484546 (hardback) | ISBN 9781684484553 (epub) |
ISBN 9781684484577 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Families in literature. | German literature—18th century—
History and criticism. | Families—Germany—Philosophy—History—18th century. |
Germany—Civilization—18th century. | Germany—Intellectual life—18th century.
Classification: LCC PT289 .S295 2023 | DDC 833/.6—dc23/eng/20220623
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022010611
Bucknell University Press gratefully acknowledges the Goethe Society
of North Amer i ca for their generous support of this proj ect.
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
xi
List of Abbreviations
xiii
Introduction
1
CHAPTER ONE
Middle Class/Bourgeois/Bürger:
The Idiosyncrasies of German Dramatic Realism
28
CHAPTER TWO
Tableau/Tableau Vivant: German- French Dramatic Encounters
43
CHAPTER THREE
The German Dramatic Tableau beyond Lessing
64
CHAPTER FOUR
Against Interiority: Letters and Portraits as Dramatic Props
87
ix