UID:
edocfu_9959229196402883
Format:
1 online resource (176 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-59434-6
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9786612594342
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90-420-2905-6
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1-4416-1692-6
Series Statement:
Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 124
Content:
Women Write Back explores the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women’s responses to texts written by well-known Enlightment figures. Hilger investigates the authorial strategies employed by Karoline von Günderrode, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Julie de Krüdener, and Helen Maria Williams, whose works engage Voltaire’s Mahomet , Johnson’s Rasselas , Goethe’s Werther , and Rousseau’s Julie . The analysis of these women’s texts sheds light on the literary culture of a period that deemed itself not only enlightened but also egalitarian.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Preliminary Material -- Women Write Back -- Gender and Genre: Helen Maria Williams’ Julia, a Novel -- Adventurous Tales: Ellis Cornelia Knight’s Dinarbas; a Tale: Being a Continuation of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia -- Staging Islam: Karoline von Günderrode’s Mahomed, der Prophet von Mekka -- The Letter and the Body: Julie de Krüdener’s Valérie -- Writing Back, Reading Forward -- Bibliography.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-420-2578-6
Language:
English
