Title: The erotics of war in German romanticism /
Authors: Simpson, Patricia Anne, 1958-
Publisher: Bucknell University Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: War Erotic aspects Germany.; German literature History and criticism; German literature History and criticism; Romanticism Germany; War in literature.; Eroticism in literature.; Germany Intellectual life; Germany Intellectual life
Contents: 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.