Rahel Levin Varnhagen: the Life and Work of a German Jewish Intellectual
by Heidi Thomann Tewarson
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Rahel Levin Varnhagen (1771-1833) occupied a unique place in German intellectual history. She is known for the salon she initiated in Berlin, which became a center for intellectuals and artists of various social classes--especially for writers of the Romantic and the Young Germany schools. Based on research at the rediscovered Varnhagen Collection, Heidi Thomann Tewarson provides a new and comprehensive portrait of this remarkable woman. No longer primarily the sparkling salonnière, show more Varhagen is recognized as the author of a unique epistolary oeuvre. Tewarson gives a rich account of Varnhagen's intellectual community, made up of such figures as Friedrich and Dorothea Schlegel, Clemens Brentano, Goethe, Hegel, Leopold Ranke, Heine, and the assimilated Jewish community in Berlin. Tewarson also discusses Varnhagen's writings on women, philosophy, literature, Jews, and a host of other topics. In particular, she highlights Varnhagen's insights into--and vehement protests against --discrimination against women and Jews. These writings led to Varnhagen's reputation as a leading intellectual of her era--a champion of literary figures and movements, of human rights, and of Enlightenment values. show lessTags
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Rowohlts Monographien (406)
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- 838.609 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures German miscellaneous writings 1750–1832 : 18th century; classical period; romantic period Individual authors not limited to one specific form : description; critical appraisal; biography; collected works
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- PT2546 .V22 .T4813 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Individual authors or works 1700-ca. 1860/70
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