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Title:

Writing the self, creating community : German women authors and the literary sphere, 1750-1850 / edited by Elisabeth Krimmer and Lauren Nossett.

Publisher:

Camden House,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

vi, 319 pages : illustrations 24 cm.

Subject:

German literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
German literature--18th century--History and criticism.
German literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Women authors, German--Biography.
Literature publishing--Germany--History--18th century.
Literature publishing--Germany--History--19th century.

Other Authors:

Krimmer, Elisabeth, 1967- editor.
Nossett, Lauren, 1986- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Empowering Germany's daughters : on the pedagogical program and the poetic techniques of Sophie von La Roche / Monika Nenon -- "Ich spreche lieber von guten Büchern" : Sophie von La Roche's concept of female authorship and readership / Lauren Nossett -- Challenging female ideals : Marie-Elisabeth de La Fite's translation of Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim / Angela Sanmann -- Catherine II, Polyxene Büsching, and Johanna Charlotte Unzer : a literary "community of practice" / Ruth P. Dawson -- Ghostwriters : the apparitional author in Benedikte Naubert's "Die weisse Frau" (1792) and Sophie Albrecht's Das Höfliche Gespenst (1797) / Sara Luly -- Vampirism inverted : pathology, gender, and authorship in Karoline von Günderrode's "Die Bande der Liebe" / Amy Jones -- Wozu eine Amazonen-Literatur? Literary creativity and productivity in the writings of Helmina von Chézy / Karin Baumgartner -- Women writers and the Märchenoma : foremother, identity, and legacy / Julie L.J. Koehler -- The illegitimacy of authorship and the legitimization of passion in Agnes von Lilien / Margaretmary 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 / Renata Fuchs -- Weibliche Irrsterne : Louise Otto and the notion of female genius in nineteenth-century Germany / Denise M. Della Rossa.

Summary:

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

Series:

Women and gender in German studies

ISBN:

1640140786
9781640140783

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1138997877

LCCN:

2020001948

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)