Maria Novella Mercuri

Edith Wharton and German Culture

Sprache: Englisch.

gebunden , 288 Seiten

ISBN 1666926337

EAN 9781666926330

Veröffentlicht 11. Dezember 2025

Verlag/Hersteller Bloomsbury Academic

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Beschreibung

Given Wharton's broad education in European languages and cultures, the absence of a full-length study of the influence of German thinking and aesthetics on her creative work has long been a considerable gap in the field of Wharton studies.
Maria Novella Mercuri offers a close analysis of Wharton's engagement with German literature and philosophy. Each chapter centers on one main novel or theme recurring in a group of works including poetry, plays and short fiction, as well as posthumously published autobiographical work. Wharton's body of work is analyzed in relation to German authors such as Wolfgang Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Johann Gottfried Herder, Friedrich de La Motte Fouqué, Theodor Fontane, Clara Viebig, Thomas Mann, Heinrich Sudermann, and Gottfried Keller. Mercuri also draws attention to the impact on Wharton of the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche and to the pervasive influence of Goethe's thought about history, ethics and aesthetics that is evident in her work.