The German Woman in the Age of Enlightenment : A Study in the Drama from Gottsched to Lessing / S. Etta Schreiber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schreiber, S. Etta, author.

Series:

Number Nineteen of the Columbia University Germanic Studies

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1948]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Studies the status of women during the critical years of the "Aufkarung". Looks at restrictions and conventions governing their lives in a period when the increasing wealth and the greater leisure of its women opened up new vistas on the social horizon.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Introduction

I. The Moral Weeklies

II. Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700-1766)

III. Hinrich Borkenstein (1705-1777)

IV. Frau Gottsched (1713-1762)

V. Johann Christian Krüger

VI. Johann Elias Schlegel (1718-1749)

VII. Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715-1769)

VIII. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781). Early Plays

IX. Christian Felix Weisse (1726-1804). Comedies

X. Christian Felix Weisse. Sentimental Comedies and Domestic Tragedies

XI. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Masterworks

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89416-3

OCLC:

1100450985