Novel Affinities: Composing the Family in the German Novel, 1795-1830

by Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge and Professor Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge

Challenges traditional novel scholarship that emphasizes the individual and the Bildungsroman, broadening the focus to the family and both canonical and non-canonical novels, reading them together with biological, legal and pedagogical texts.

The novel, according to standard scholarly narratives, depicts an individual's path to maturity. Scholarship on the rise of the novel in Germany and in Europe more broadly, from Watt to Moretti, has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571139591
• ISBN13: 9781571139597
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"