Writing the Self, Creating Community: German Women Authors and the Literary Sphere, 1750–1850

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Writing the Self, Creating Community

German Women Authors and the Literary Sphere, 1750–1850

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Tautz, Birgit Rennie, Nicholas Lande, Joel B. Allert, Beate I. Dupree, Mary Helen Krimmer, Elisabeth Wagner, Martin and Wiggins, Ellwood 2020. Forum: New Approaches to Eighteenth‐Century Literature, Culture, and Theory. The German Quarterly, Vol. 93, Issue. 2, p. 255.

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Edited by Elisabeth Krimmer, University of California, Davis, Lauren Nossett

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: October 2020
Print publication year:: 2020
Online ISBN:: 9781787448643
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787448643

Subjects:: Literature, Sociology of Gender, European and World Literature: General Interest, Sociology
Series:: Women and Gender in German Studies

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

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Writing the Self, Creating Community

German Women Authors and the Literary Sphere, 1750–1850

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Frontmatter
pp i-iii

Contents
pp iv-v

Acknowledgments
pp vi-vi

Introduction
pp 1-20

Part I - Writing a Community
pp 21-21

1 - Empowering Germany’s Daughters: On the Pedagogical Program and the Poetic Techniques of Sophie von La Roche
pp 22-43

2 - “Ich spreche lieber von guten Büchern”: Sophie von La Roche’s Concept of Female Authorship and Readership
pp 44-67

3 - Challenging Female Ideals: Marie-Elisabeth de La Fite’s Translation of Sophie von La Roche’s Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim
pp 68-85

4 - Catherine II, Polyxene Büsching, and Johanna Charlotte Unzer: A Literary “Community of Practice”
pp 86-114

Part II - Writing the Self
pp 115-115

5 - Ghostwriters: The Apparitional Author in Benedikte Naubert’s “Die Weiße Frau” (1792) and Sophie Albrecht’s Das Höfliche Gespenst (1797)
pp 116-137

6 - Vampirism Inverted: Pathology, Gender, and Authorship in Karoline von Günderrode’s “Die Bande der Liebe”
pp 138-159

7 - Wozu eine Amazonen—Literatur? Literary Creativity and Productivity in the Writings of Helmina von Chézy
pp 160-178

8 - Women Writers and the Märchenoma: Foremother, Identity, and Legacy
pp 179-200

Part III - Writing toward Emancipation
pp 201-201

9 - The Illegitimacy of Authorship and the Legitimization of Passion in Agnes von Lilien
pp 202-224

10 - 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
pp 225-247

11 - Weibliche Irrsterne: Louise Otto and the Notion of Female Genius in Nineteenth-Century Germany
pp 248-264

Bibliography
pp 265-290

Notes on the Contributors
pp 291-293

Index
pp 294-312

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