The Erotics of War in German Romanticism

by Patricia Anne Simpson

In The Erotics of War in German Romanticism, Patricia Anne Simpson explores the ways early nineteenth-century German philosophers, poets, and artists represent war and erotic desire. The author argues that gender is connected to a larger debate about the construction of the self in relation to a community at a time that this definition is under revision. She analyzes the culture of war as it shapes the bonds of fraternal, familial, and eventually...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611482674
• ISBN13: 9781611482676
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 293 Pages