Women and literature in the Goethe era (1770-1820) : determined dilettantes / Helen Fronius.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fronius, Helen, 1975-

Series:

Oxford modern languages and literature monographs.

Oxford modern languages and literature monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

German literature.

Women and literature--Germany--History--18th century.

Women and literature.

Women and literature--Germany--History--19th century.

Women authors, German--18th century.

Women authors, German.

Women authors, German--19th century.

Sex role--Germany--History--18th century.

Sex role.

Sex role--Germany--History--19th century.

Women--Books and reading--Germany--History--18th century.

Women.

Women--Books and reading--Germany--History--19th century.

Publishers and publishing--Germany--History--18th century.

Publishers and publishing.

Publishers and publishing--Germany--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Late eighteenth-century German literature was dominated by men. Women were discouraged from reading and scorned as writers, but the attempt to exclude did not always succeed. This study combines archival research, literary analysis, and statistical evidence to give a sociological-historical overview of the conditions of women's literary production. - ;The Goethe era of German literature was dominated by men. Women were discouraged from reading and scorned as writers; Schiller saw female writers as typical 'dilettantes'. But the attempt to exclude did not always succeed, and the growing literar

Contents:

'Weiber = Apologeten' and 'Mode-Misogyne' : ideologies of gender

'Uber die Begierde der Weiber, Schriftstellerei zu treiben' : authorship and gender

'Sollte ich gar nicht lesen, dann konnte ich von Sinnen kommen' : women and reading

'Was will der reiche Mann der armen Frau fur diese Arbeit geben?' : women writers and the literary market

'Gedruckt, aber nicht unterdruckt' : women and the public sphere.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-267) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-152624-X

1-281-16073-3

9786611160739

1-4356-0689-2

OCLC:

476246869