Women and Writing in the Works of Novalis: Transformation Beyond Measure?

by James R. Hodkinson

A balanced study of gender in Novalis as expressed in his literary, political, and scientific writings and in his letters.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571133763
• ISBN13: 9781571133762
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"