Rhine Crossings

Aminia M. Brueggemann is Visiting Assistant Professor of German Studies at Brown University and the author of Chronotopos Amerika bei Max Frisch, Peter Handke, Günter Kunert, und Martin Walser. Peter Schulman is Associate Professor of French and International Studies at Old Dominion University. He is the author of The Sunday of Fiction: The Modern French Eccentric and the coeditor (with Frederick A. Lubich) of The Marketing of Eros: Performance, Sexuality, Consumer Culture.

• Part I. Introduction France and Germany: A Tempestuous AffairAminia M. Brueggemann and Peter Schulman Part II. Pre-Romantic Currents 1. Re-constructing a "Gendered" Bildung: Mme de Staël’s and Sophie von la Roche’s Epistolary FictionBeatrice Guenther2. "Vous appellés cela betrügen?": Slippery French Morals and German Bourgeois Virtues in Selected Writings by G. E. LessingHeidi M. Schlipphacke 3. The Dying Poet: Scenarios of a Christianized HeineSarah Juliette Sasson Part III. From Fin de Siècle to Modernist Connections 4. Girls, Girls, Girls: Re-Membering the BodyTerri J. Gordon5. Hygiene, Hard Work, and the Pursuit of Style in Baudelaire and NietzscheAndrea Gogröf-Voorhees6. Pierrette, assassine assassinée: The Portrait of Lulu in Two TableauxJennifer Forrest7. Benjamin Between Berlin and Paris: The Metaphorics of the CityMichael Payne8. À fleur du dialogue: Georges Bataille, Karl Blossfeldt, and the Language of FlowersKimberley Healey Part IV. World War II and Its Legacy 9. An Unwanted Connection: Aristide Maillol and NazismWilliam J. Cloonan10. Of Heroes and Traitors: Two Early Films by René ClémentPhilip Watts11. Between Collaboration and Resistance: Ernst Jünger in Paris, 1941–44Elliot Neaman Part V. Postmodern Reflections 12. Romy Schneider, La Passante du Sans-Souci: Discourses of Vergangenheitsbewältigung, Feminism, and MythNina Zimnik 13. History/Paris-Berlin/HistorySande CohenContributorsIndex