60985X1 Texts and Contexts Series. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln & London: 1998. 262 pages. Hardcover, no dustjacket (as issued. Brand new book. 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. ISBN: 0803244355 $55.00USD
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