Mutations of the Ideal Sociability in the Eighteenth Century: From Insel Felsenburg to Goethe
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Utopia, Happiness, Travel, Bourgeoisie, Exile, Paradise
Abstract
In Insel Felsenburg, the most popular of the German Robinsonades, the link between this novelistic subgenre and utopia becomes obvious, because, unlike what had been the case in Robinson Crusoe, the island functions as a contrast with respect to the starting point: Europe, conceived as unmoral and far away from God. The Felsenburg Island becomes a symbol of a patriarchal-bourgeois ideal society, whose centre is the family. It is conceivable that this idealized sociability form is reelaborated in the last third of the 18th Century, when the utopian story is temporalized and the Robinsonades lose their force. Novels such as Anton Reiser and Wilhem Meisters Lehjahre testify for these transformations.Downloads
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Koval M. I. (2016). Mutations of the Ideal Sociability in the Eighteenth Century: From Insel Felsenburg to Goethe. Revista de Filología Alemana, 24, 9-21. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_RFAL.2016.v24.52813
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