The erotics of war in German romanticism / Patricia Anne Simpson.

Author/creator Simpson, Patricia Anne, 1958-
Format Book
Publication InfoLewisburg : Bucknell University Press, ©2006.
Description293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
War--Erotic aspects. --Germany.
German literature--18th century. --History and criticism.
German literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
Romanticism--Germany.
War in literature.
Eroticism in literature.
Germany--Intellectual life. --18th century.
Germany--Intellectual life. --19th century.

Contents Once upon a war -- War and the national imaginary -- To become a man: Hölderlin's Hyperion project -- The essential duel: Karoline von Günderrode on the margins of war -- The erotics of war in Kleist's Penthesilea -- The gender of nation: Goethe, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and Ernst Moritz Arndt -- Retro-romanticism: Bettina Brentano-von Arnim writes to the king -- To stand on the feet of a lion; or, thought invents the gun.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 270-286) and index.
LCCN 2006010124
ISBN083875662X (alk. paper)
ISBN9780838756621 (alk. paper)