Arnim, Bettina von - Claire Baldwin (essay date 1995)
Claire Baldwin (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: Baldwin, Claire. “Questioning the ‘Jewish Question’: Poetic Philosophy and Politics in Conversations with Demons.” In Bettina Brentano-von Arnim: Gender and Politics, edited by Elke P. Frederiksen and Katherine R. Goodman, pp. 213-43. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995.
[In the following essay, Baldwin discusses Arnim's efforts on behalf of Germany's Jewish population in obtaining social and political freedom.]
In Bettina Brentano-von Arnim's famous letter of 1839 to Friedrich Karl Savigny, she includes among her political concerns the discrimination against Jews in Germany; she wishes to dedicate a “romantic heroes' fire” (ein romantisches Heldenfeuer) to them (Köln 5: 318). Her informed interest in the status of Jews in Germany can be traced throughout her literary opus as well as in her letters. In Goethe's Correspondence with a Child (Goethes Briefwechsel...
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