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Book Description: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln & London, 1998. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Texts and Contexts Series. 262 pages. Hardcover, no dustjacket (as issued). New book. BIOGRAPHY. 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 classesÑespecially 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 salonnire, 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 intoÑand vehement protests against Ñdiscrimination against women and Jews. These writings led to Varnhagen's reputation as a leading intellectual of her eraÑa champion of literary figures and movements, of human rights, and of Enlightenment values. Heidi Thomann Tewarson is a professor of German at Oberlin College. Author of two books and numerous articles, she publishes on eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century German literature. Includes an Index. (Key Words: Rahel Levin Varnhagen, Frederick Schlegel, Dorothea Schlegel, Clemens Brentano, Johann Goethe, Georg Hegel, Leopold von Ranke, Heine, Women, Heidi Thomann Tewarson, Romanticism, Biography, Moses Mendelssohn, Letters, Johann Gottfried Herder, Enlightenment, Berlin). book. Bookseller Inventory # 60985X1

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Book Description: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 1998. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. illustrated edition. 282 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # 0803244355

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