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

by Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge and Professor Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge

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 essentially collapsed the genre into the individualist Bildungsroman, exemplified by a narrow canon. This study challenges and nuances these narratives, first by expanding the focus from the individual to the family, second by broadening the field of novels...

• 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"