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Eldridge opens the door to new revelations concerning the emphasis on families based on affective feelings. . . . Eldridge adds significantly to recent scholarship and provides a unique re-reading of affective families as portrayed in various discourses and novels/Bildungsromane from 1795 to 1830. MONATSHEFTE [Susan Gustafson]

[A] deeply engaging book that offers new insights into the relationship between form and content (themselves always shifting), both in literary and sociological terms. GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW [Heidi Schlipphacke] There is much to admire in [the author's] ability to draw connections between seemingly disparate cultural developments, and her book, like the novels she analyzes, seeks to engage the reader in dialogue about the form and purpose of fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In its fostering of scholarly exchange and dialogue, Novel Affinities is a successful and intriguing contribution to the conversation. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES Eldridge opens the door to new revelations concerning the emphasis on families based on affective feelings. . . . Eldridge adds significantly to recent scholarship and provides a unique re-reading of affective families as portrayed in various discourses and novels/Bildungsromane from 1795 to 1830. MONATSHEFTE [Susan Gustafson] [Eldridge] thus refocuses the discussion of the Bildungsroman, and does so also by drawing on a particularly wide choice of texts that includes not only the Wilhelm Meister novels and Die Wahlverwandtschaften, but also many popular, trivial novels of the period, at the same time as bearing in mind the contemporary social history of the family and, for example, questions of inheritance law. YEARS WORK IN MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES

Eldridge opens the door to new revelations concerning the emphasis on families based on affective feelings. . . . Eldridge adds signi?cantly to recent scholarship and provides a unique re-reading of affective families as portrayed in various discourses and novels/Bildungsromane from 1795 to 1830. MONATSHEFTE (Susan Gustafson)

There is much to admire in her ability to draw connections between seemingly disparate cultural developments, and her book, like the novels she analyzes, seeks to engage the reader in dialogue about the form and purpose of fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In its fostering of scholarly exchange and dialogue, Novel Affinities is a successful and intriguing contribution to the conversation. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES Eldridge opens the door to new revelations concerning the emphasis on families based on affective feelings. . . . Eldridge adds significantly to recent scholarship and provides a unique re-reading of affective families as portrayed in various discourses and novels/Bildungsromane from 1795 to 1830. MONATSHEFTE [Susan Gustafson]

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SARAH VANDEGRIFT ELDRIDGE is an Associate Professor of German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

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