This essay provides a\u00a0 brief overview of eighteenth-century German medical thought on family, gender and sexuality before looking at the ways in which medical discourses are used to bolster heterosexual discourses in three important bildungsromane: Wieland\u2019s\u00a0Agathon, Moritz\u2019s\u00a0Anton Reiser, and Goethe\u2019s\u00a0Wilhelm Meister.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHealthy Families:\u00a0 Medicine, Patriarchy, and Heterosexuality in 18th-Century German Novels,\u201d Impure Reason:\u00a0 Dialectic of Enlightenment in Germany<\/span>, ed. W. Daniel Wilson and Robert C. Holub (Detroit:\u00a0 Wayne State UP, 1993) 242-59.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This essay provides a\u00a0 brief overview of eighteenth-century German medical thought on family, gender and sexuality before looking at the ways in which medical discourses are used to bolster heterosexual discourses in three important bildungsromane: Wieland\u2019s\u00a0Agathon, Moritz\u2019s\u00a0Anton Reiser, and Goethe\u2019s\u00a0Wilhelm …<\/p>\n