Novel Affinities: Composing the Family in the German Novel, 1795-1830

Challenges traditional novel scholarship that emphasizes the individual and the Bildungsroman, broadening the focus to the family and both canonical and non—canonical novels, reading them together with biological, legal and pedagogical texts.



The novel, according to standard scholarly narratives, depicts an individual's path to maturity. Scholarship on the rise of the novel in Germany and in Europe more broadly, from Watt to Moretti, has essentially collapsed the genreinto the individualist ...