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Author:   Burkhard Henke (Author) ,  Professor Susanne Kord ,  Simon Richter (Customer) ,  Annie Janiero Randall (Contributor)
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   Camden House Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781571131942

ISBN 10:   1571131949
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   01 December 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Language:   English

Table of Contents

Introduction: Like a Box of Chocolates... - Simon Richter Goethe. Advertising, Marketing, and Merchandising the Classical - Burkhard Henke Weimar Classicism and the Origins of Consumer Culture - Daniel Purdy Floating Heads: Weimar Portrait Busts - Catriona MacLeod Music in Weimar cicra 1780: Decentering Text, Decentering Goethe - Annie Janiero Randall War and Dramaturgy: Goethe's Command of the Weimar Theater - Karin Schutjer From Werther to Amazons: Cross-Dressing and Male-Male Desire - Susan Gustafson Sartorial Transgressions: Re-Dressing Class and Gender Hierarchies in Masquerades and Travesties - Elisabeth Krimmer Women Writers and the Authorization of Literary Practice - Linda Dietrick The Hunchback of Weimar: Louise von Göchhausen and the Weimar Grotesque - Creation and Constipation: Don Carlos and Schiller's Blocke Passage to Weimar - Stephanie Hammer Skeletons in Goethe's Closet: Human Rights, Protest, and the Myth of Political Liberality - The Weimar Myth: From City of the Arts to the Global Village - Gert Theile

Reviews

The volume abounds in new insights and discoveries about the culture and activities of Weimar courtly and bourgeois high-society (for example music practices, the Weimar theater, masked balls, the commercial production of plaster busts with which to adorn the home, the very influential local fashion magazine, etc.) and illuminates the participation of numerous lesser-known figures in the creation of what came to be known as Classical Weimar.--Thomas P. Saine, editor, GOETHE YEARBOOK'The book offers an interesting and extensive amount of material which will stimulate considerable further research.' MONATSHEFTE '[A] lively and entertaining collection of essays.' GERMANIC NOTES AND REVIEWS 'The collection offers a myriad of Cultural Studies approaches and demonstrates their importance for the re-examination of historical periods. ... A central contribution to German eighteenth-century studies.' GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW'Unpacks the dense signifying network of a familiar cultural constellation to reval a plethora of exciting insights...' GOETHE

The volume abounds in new insights and discoveries about the culture and activities of Weimar courtly and bourgeois high-society (for example music practices, the Weimar theater, masked balls, the commercial production of plaster busts with which to adorn the home, the very influential local fashion magazine, etc.) and illuminates the participation of numerous lesser-known figures in the creation of what came to be known as Classical Weimar.--Thomas P. Saine, editor, GOETHE YEARBOOK'The book offers an interesting and extensive amount of material which will stimulate considerable further research.' MONATSHEFTE '(A) lively and entertaining collection of essays.' GERMANIC NOTES AND REVIEWS 'The collection offers a myriad of Cultural Studies approaches and demonstrates their importance for the re-examination of historical periods. ... A central contribution to German eighteenth-century studies.' GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW'Unpacks the dense signifying network of a familiar cultural constellation to reval a plethora of exciting insights...' GOETHE

Author Information

SUSANNE KORD is Professor of German at University College London and has published widely on crime and antisemitism, ethics in horror films, women and violent crime, and many other books and essays on film (especially genre and Hollywood movies), women's literary history and reception, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and culture. She has received 6 major awards for her writing. In the interest of making some of women's unknown literature available to modern readers, she has edited four collections of plays by women and translated three dramas into English. Her major works include Murderesses in German Writing, 1720-1860 (Cambridge UP, 2013), Lovable Crooks and Loathsome Jews: Antisemitism in German and Austrian Crime Writing Before the World Wars (McFarland, 2018). Her latest book is a short exploration of Drew Goddard's meta-horror film The Cabin in the Woods (2012), forthcoming with Liverpool University Press in 2022. ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis.

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