Beschreibung:
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.
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 classes-especially 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 salonnière, Varhagen is recognized as the author of a unique epistolary oeuvre.