Krimmer / Nossett Writing the Self, Creating Community

German Women Authors and the Literary Sphere, 1750-1850
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78744-864-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 4, 328 Seiten

Reihe: Women and Gender in German Studies

This volume examines the world of German women writers who emerged in the burgeoning literary marketplace of eighteenth-century Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krimmer, Elisabeth

Nossett, Lauren

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
Empowering Germany's Daughters: On the Pedagogical Program and the Poetic Techniques of Sophie von La Roche
"Ich spreche lieber von guten Büchern": Sophie von La Roche's Concept of Female Authorship and Readership
Challenging Female Ideals: Marie-Elisabeth de La Fite's Translation of Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim
Catherine II, Polyxene Büsching, and Johanna Charlotte Unzer: A Literary "Community of Practice"
Ghostwriters: The Apparitional Author in Benedikte Naubert's "Die Weiße Frau" (1792) and Sophie Albrecht's Das Höfliche Gespenst (1797)
Vampirism Inverted: Pathology, Gender, and Authorship in Karoline von Günderrode's "Die Bande der Liebe"
Wozu eine Amazonen-Literatur? Literary Creativity and Productivity in the Writings of Helmina von Chézy
Women Writers and the Märchenoma: Foremother, Identity, and Legacy
The Illegitimacy of Authorship and the Legitimization of Passion in Agnes von LilienMargaretmary Daley
The Politics of the Female Body in Louise Aston's and Fanny Lewald's Writings through the Prism of the Romantic Theory of Sociability and Dialogue
Weibliche Irrsterne: Louise Otto-Peters and the Notion of Female Genius in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Über Autor(innen)

Krimmer Elisabeth:
ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis.