TY - GEN T1 - The aesthetics of kinship : form and family in the long eighteenth century T2 - New studies in the age of Goethe. A1 - Schlipphacke, Heidi M. LA - English PP - Lewisburg PB - Bucknell University Press YR - 2023 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1351749438 AB - "The Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into rigidified discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and the corresponding interior subject in the eighteenth century. By focusing on kinship constellations instead of "family plots" in seminal literary works of the period, this book presents an alternative view of the eighteenth-century literary social world and its concomitant ideologies. Whereas Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment philosophy and political theory posit the nuclear family as a microcosm for the ideal modern nation-state, literature of the period offers a far more heterogeneous image of kinship structures, one that includes members of various classes and is not defined by blood. Through a radical re-reading of the multifarious kinship structures represented in literature of the long eighteenth century, The Aesthetics of Kinship questions the inevitability of the dialectic of the Enlightenment and invokes alternative futures for conceptions of social and political life"-- OP - 355 CN - PT289 .S295 2023 SN - 9781684484577 SN - 168448457X SN - 1684484545 SN - 9781684484546 KW - Families in literature. KW - German literature : 18th century : History and criticism. KW - Families : Germany : Philosophy : History : 18th century. KW - Germany : Civilization : 18th century. KW - Germany : Intellectual life : 18th century. KW - Familles dans la littérature. KW - Littérature allemande : 18e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Familles : Allemagne : Philosophie : Histoire : 18e siècle. KW - Allemagne : Civilisation : 18e siècle. KW - Allemagne : Vie intellectuelle : 18e siècle. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General. KW - Intellectual life KW - German literature KW - Families : Philosophy KW - Families in literature KW - Civilization KW - Germany KW - 1700-1799 KW - kinship, queer, surface, aesthetics, intermedial, family, Lessing, Goethe, Schiller, tableau, tableau vivant, Denis Diderot, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Antonio Bellucci, Luciano Borzone, Nicolas Poussin, Gerard ter Borch, Johann Georg Wille, C. F. Gellert, Hegel, Eve Sedgwick, Erich Auerbach, Georg Lukács, Peter Szondi, Bildungsroman, Germany, England, France, Enlightenment, German literature. KW - History KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -