Interiority in German women’s writing edited by Beate Allert and Amy Emm

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allert, Beate, 1954- editor.

Emm, Amy, editor.

Series:

Early modern feminisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

German literature.

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

German literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Self (Philosophy) in literature.

Philosophy of mind in literature.

German literature--Women authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Newark University of Delaware Press [2026]

Summary:

"Interiority in German Women’s Writing for the first time systematically gathers and engages with contributions of German women authors to the discourse on interiority (Innerlichkeit) from 1750 to 1850. This volume shifts the recent focus on abstract theoretical and medical discourses on inwardness to the origins of interiority in literature and philosophy as written and experienced by women from the Age of Sensibility (Empfindsamkeit) to the Romantic era. At the same time, it makes a claim for and explores the ramifications of understanding interiority as a feminine discourse. Contributors investigate the works of women authors who searched to find rescue from their cultural and personal entrapment via creative spaces and various modes of interiority in theatrical performances, poetic writings, letters, biographical narratives, prose, and fairy tales. From the case studies and literary analyses in the volume, interiority emerges as a spectrum of approaches to defining, resisting, and transforming the innermost self"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

Karoline von Günderrode’s theatrical interiority / Amy Emm

Interiority, place, and female creativity : Philippine Gatterer Engelhard and Sophie Albrecht / Liesl Allingham

Philomela’s song : The poetics of intersubjective interiority in selected works by Caroline Rudolphi and Juliane Reichardt, née Benda / Francien Markx

A shield and a grave : The duality of Gothic interiority in Caroline de la Motte Fouqué’s “Das Fräulein vom Thurme” / Sara Luly

Interiority as impossible refuge in Sophie Tieck’s tale “Der Einsiedler und die Nonne” (The Hermit and the Nun) / Christina M. Weiler

Interiority and apotheosis in three poetic idylls / Margaretmary Daley

Interiority as goal or impossibility in Sophie von La Roche’s Rosaliens Briefe an ihre Freundinn Mariane von St* and Friederike Helene Unger’s Julchen Grünthal* / Monika Nenon

Writing a life : Caroline Flachsland Herder / Björn Hambsch

“O, wie herrlich war meine Blütezeit” : The vocal paper of Helmina von Chézy / Catriona MacLeod

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff’s poem “The Marl-pit” : From rocks to wool and sea silk / Beate Allert

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed September 1, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Interiority in German women’s writing

ISBN:

9781644534274

1644534274

OCLC:

1602012782

Access Restriction:

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