Daley Great Books by German Women in the Age of Emotion, 1770-1820

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-80010-513-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 7, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm

Reihe: Women and Gender in German Studies

Emphasizing the role of and portrayal of emotion, this study argues for the inclusion of six late-eighteenth-century German-language novels by and about women in a revised canon.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daley, Margaretmary

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Passion and Prejudice: Toward a New Literary Canon for the German Novel
1: An Anglophile Fräulein and Her Epistolary Emotions: Die Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim (1771) by Sophie von La Roche
2: Reading for Pleasure vs. Reading for Pain: Julchen Grünthal: Eine Pensionsgeschichte (1784) by Friederike Unger
3: Sympathy for the Sublime: Das Blütenalter der Empfindung (1794) by Sophie Mereau
4: The Legitimacy of Passionate Narrative and the Metanarrative of Anonymity: Agnes von Lilien (1796) by Caroline von Wolzogen
5: Monstrous Pathos and the Agony of Female Influence: Die Honigmonathe(1804) by Caroline Fischer
6: Adultery Rewarded: Women's Emotions and Men's Indignity in Frauenwürde (1818) by Caroline Pichler
Conclusion: Great Books, Or: The Laurel Wreath as a Mixed Blessing
Appendix A: Publication Information and Plot Summaries, Chronologically Listed
Appendix B: Biographies of the Novelists
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Daley Margaretmary:
MARGARETMARY DALEY is Associate Professor of German at Case Western Reserve University and author of Women of Letters: A Study of Self and Genre in the Personal Writing of Caroline Schlegel-Schelling, Rahel Levin Varnhagen, and Bettina von Arnim (Camden House, 1998).
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