Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture: Literary Joint Ventures, 1750-1850 (New Directions in German Studies)
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Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture: Literary Joint Ventures, 1750-1850 (New Directions in German Studies)

Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture: Literary Joint Ventures, 1750-1850 (New Directions in German Studies)

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John B. Lyon (Contributor) Laura Deiulio (Contributor)  

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Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture challenges a model of literary production that persists in literary studies: the so-called Geniekult or the idea of the solitary male author as genius that emerged around 1800 in German lands. A closer look at creative practices during this time indicates that collaborative creative endeavors, specifically joint ventures between women and men, were an important mode of literary production during this era. This volume surveys a variety of such collaborations and proves that male and female spheres of creation were not as distinct as has been previously thought. It demonstrates that the model of the male genius that dominated literary studies for centuries was not inevitable, that viable alternatives to it existed. Finally, it demands that we rethink definitions of an author and a literary work in ways that account for the complex modes of creation from which they arose.
Laura Deiulio is Associate Professor of German at Christopher Newport University, USA. She has published essays on Lou Andreas-Salome, Esther Gad, and Rahel Levin Varnhagen's correspondences with Pauline Wiesel and Auguste Brede.John B. Lyon is Professor of German at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is the author of Crafting Flesh, Crafting the Self: Violence and Identity in Early 19th Century German Literature (2006) and Out of Place: German Realism, Displacement, and Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2013).
  • Contributor: John B. Lyon
  • Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
  • ISBN13: 9781501351006
  • Number of Pages: 352
  • Packaged Dimensions: 140x216mm
  • Packaged Weight: 549
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • Release Date: 2019-08-22
  • Series: New Directions in German Studies
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Laura Deiulio is Associate Professor of German at Christopher Newport University, USA. She has published essays on Lou Andreas-Salome, Esther Gad, and Rahel Levin Varnhagen's correspondences with Pauline Wiesel and Auguste Brede.John B. Lyon is Professor of German at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is the author of Crafting Flesh, Crafting the Self: Violence and Identity in Early 19th Century German Literature (2006) and Out of Place: German Realism, Displacement, and Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2013).

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