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Schiffman, Robyn L.

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"Werther" and the end of epistolarity, 1774--1824.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Werther" and the end of epistolarity, 1774--1824./
Author:	Schiffman, Robyn L.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2006,
Description:	205 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-02, Section: A, page: 5520.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-02A.
Subject:	Comparative literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3206348
ISBN:	9780542550126

"Werther" and the end of epistolarity, 1774--1824.
Schiffman, Robyn L.

"Werther" and the end of epistolarity, 1774--1824. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2006 - 205 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-02, Section: A, page: 5520.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2006.

"Werther and the End of Epistolarity, 1774-1824" investigates a transformative moment in Anglo-German literary relations from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. While scholars have analyzed Werther in terms of the history of sentiment and of suicide, I situate the novel further within discussions of genre by asking what role Werther in translation played in the death of the epistolary novel in Britain. I argue that Werther kills off the epistolary novel. I trace the extensive afterlives both the character and novel enjoyed particularly in Britain, as part of a larger narrative of national literary character exchange, and I uncover how subsequent novelists use Werther's abbreviated epistolarity as a template for their own. I suggest that Werther's monologism, rather than changing the novel as a genre, in fact produces the first person, ego-driven narrator found in British Romantic poetry. The dissertation maps out the British reverberations of Werther as a "literary meteor" (to quote Thomas Carlyle) and thus demonstrates that this German novel plays a central albeit previously neglected role in British literary history.

ISBN: 9780542550126Subjects--Topical Terms:

570001
Comparative literature.

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