Karoline von Günderrode
Philosophical Romantic
Joanna Raisbeck
Click cover to enlarge Booksellers & libraries: | Legenda 8 October 2022 • 272pp ISBN: 978-1-839540-25-7 (hardback) • RRP £85, $115, €99 ISBN: 978-1-839540-26-4 (paperback, forthcoming) ISBN: 978-1-839540-27-1 (JSTOR ebook) Access online: Books@JSTOR Karoline von Günderrode’s biography – and in particular her early death – have long overshadowed an appreciation of her literary works. Closer attention to her poems, prose writings and plays reveals Günderrode’s remarkable engagement with the philosophical, literary, and scientific debates of her age. Joanna Raisbeck’s study is the first to uncover a consistent theme throughout Günderrode, one which stems from the desire to combat the prevalent philosophical dangers of both materialism and atheism. Günderrode, it emerges, is the most consistent thinker of Spinozist pantheism – the idea that God and nature are the same – not just in German Romanticism, but in her age. Günderrode uses a new interpretation of Spinoza as a means to write about questions of determinism, autonomy, and what differences there might be, if at all, between humankind and nature. Joanna Raisbeck is Lecturer in German at St Hilda's College and Wadham College, University of Oxford. She is the winner of both the Klaus Heyne-Award for Research in German Romanticism (2021) and the Novalis Prize (2022) for her work on Günderrode.
For a contents listing, see this volume at JSTOR. Bibliography entry: Raisbeck, Joanna, Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Romantic, Germanic Literatures, 26 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2022) First footnote reference: 35 Joanna Raisbeck, Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Romantic, Germanic Literatures, 26 (Cambridge: Legenda, 2022), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Raisbeck, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Raisbeck, Joanna. 2022. Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Romantic, Germanic Literatures, 26 (Cambridge: Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Raisbeck 2022: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Raisbeck 2022: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up a free ipage® Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Karoline-von-Günderrode www.mhra.org.uk/publications/gl-26 |
