The mask and the quill : actress-writers in Germany from Enlightenment to Romanticism / Mary Helen Dupree.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dupree, Mary Helen, 1974-

Series:

New studies in the age of Goethe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

German literature.

German literature--Women authors.

German literature--18th century--History and criticism.

Actresses as authors--Germany.

Actresses as authors.

Actresses--Germany--History--18th century.

Actresses.

History.

Germany.

Physical Description:

200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2011]

Summary:

In the last three decades of the eighteenth century, a small but significant number of German actresses, including Sophie Albrecht (1757-1840), Marianne Ehrmann (1755-1795) and Elise B rger (1769-1833), began to publish poetry, autobiography, drama and short fiction under their own names. These "actress-writers" came of age at a time when the status of the actress was being radically redefined in accordance with Enlightenment aesthetics and the cult of sensibility. The Mask and the Quill is an exploration of this generation of actress-writers, their significance for German literary and cultural history, and their attempts to come to terms with the new image of the actress through literature and performance.

Contents:

Introduction : Caroline's daughters : the actress as writer

Inventing the Gefühlsschauspielerin : Charlotte Ackermann (1757-75)

Stages of loss : Sophie Albrecht (1757-1840)

Amalie's critique of theatrical reason : Marianne Ehrmann (1755-95)

Antique, modern and eternally beautiful : Elise Bürger (1769-1833) and salon performance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1611480248

9781611480245

9780838758007

0838758002

OCLC:

650019288