The erotics of war in German romanticism /
Simpson, Patricia Anne,1958-
Lewisburg, Pa. : Bucknell University Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-286) and index.
Once upon a war -- War and the national imaginary -- To become a man: Hölderlin's Hyperion project -- The essential duel: Karoline von Günderrode on the margins of war -- The erotics of war in Kleist's Penthesilea -- The gender of nation: Goethe, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and Ernst Moritz Arndt -- Retro-romanticism: Bettina Brentano-von Arnim writes to the king -- To stand on the feet of a lion; or, thought invents the gun.
War
German literature
German literature
Romanticism
War in literature.
Eroticism in literature.