Griffiths Political Change and Human Emancipation in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist

1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-57113-651-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 202 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Challenges traditional views of Kleist by situating his work in relation to the political and philosophical debates of his age.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Griffiths, Elystan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Prussia and Germany in Kleist's Day
Kleist and the Political World
The Nation, the State, and the Subject
Education and Social Change
The Theory and Practice of War
Administration and Justice
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Griffiths Elystan:
ELYSTAN GRIFFITHS is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in German Studies at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of the monographs Political Change and Human Emancipation in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist (2005) and The Shepherd, the Volk, and the Middle Class: Transformations of Pastoral in German-Language Writing, 1750-1850 (2020). Along with David Hill, he published the first complete edition of J.M.R. Lenz's writings on social and military reform, based on extensive manuscript holdings in Kraków, Berlin and Riga. He is currently working on a project on the relationship between obedience and agency in German culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.