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Since The Late Eighteenth Century, Writers And Thinkers Have Used The Idea Of Love--often Unrequited Or Impossible Love--to Comment On The Changing Cultural, Social, And Political Position Of Jews In The German-speaking Countries. In Mixed Feelings, Katja Garloff Asks What It Means For Literature (and Philosophy) To Use Love Between Individuals As A Metaphor For Group Relations. This Question Is Of Renewed Interest Today, When Theorists Of Multiculturalism Turn Toward Love In Their Search For New Models Of Particularity And Universality. Mixed Feelings Is Structured Around Two Transformative Moments In German Jewish Culture And History That Produced Particularly Rich Clusters Of Interfaith Love Stories. Around 1800, Literature Promoted The Rise Of The Romantic Love Ideal And The Shift From Prearranged To Love-based Marriages. In The German-speaking Countries, This Change In The Theory And Practice Of Love Coincided With The Beginnings Of Jewish Emancipation, And Both Its Supporters And Opponents Linked Their Arguments To Tropes Of Love. Garloff Explores The Generative Powers Of Such Tropes In Moses Mendelssohn, G.e. Lessing, Friedrich Schlegel, Dorothea Veit, And Achim Von Arnim. A

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Author

Katja Garloff

Publisher

Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501706561

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities