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  • In/Securities: Queer Life Narratives of Early Modern Times

    In collaboration with Jason Lieblang and Patricia Milewski

    Edited by Daniela Fuhrmann, Gaby Pailer ...
    Series Book 152 - Jahrbuch fuer Internationale Germanistik
    This volume focuses on queer aspects of literary lives, which result from or cause various in/securities. By focusing on moments of irritation, or queer instances, the subjects of investigation challenge established norms, hierarchies, and ideologies. At stake are one-dimensional fixations of meaning, procedures of heteronormative standardization as well as the intellectual foundations of their ... Read more

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  • The Topography of Modernity

    Karl Philipp Moritz and the Space of Autonomy

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    Karl Philipp Moritz (d. 1793) was one of the most innovative writers of the late Enlightenment in Germany. A novelist, travel writer, editor, and teacher he is probably best known today for his autobiographical novel Anton Reiser (1785–90) and for his treatises on aesthetics, foremost among them Über die bildende Nachahmung des Schönen (On the Formative Imitation of the Beautiful) (1788). In this ... Read more

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  • Allegories of Format

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