In:
Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 95, No. 1 ( 2021-03), p. 23-41
Abstract:
This paper examines the relationship between discourses of genius and the fascination with untaught poets in the 18th century. In terms of literary history, it shows how authors of the Enlightenment in Halle studied women poets Anna Dorothea Lange and Anna Louisa Karsch as examples of the writing of the untaught, thereby preparing concepts of the natural genius. On a systematic level, the article challenges the idea of autonomous speech by tracing this constellation back to models of religious inspiration, in which the inspired status of the speaker had to be affirmed by an external authority.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0012-0936
,
2365-9521
DOI:
10.1007/s41245-021-00122-w
Language:
German
Publisher:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Publication Date:
2021
detail.hit.zdb_id:
200376-4
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2075186-2
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2226906-X
SSG:
24
SSG:
7,20
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