Women Write Back

Strategies of Response and the Dynamics of European Literary Culture, 1790-1805
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-420-2578-3
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 124, 175 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 290 g

Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

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.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Women Write Back
Gender and Genre: Helen Maria William’s 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
Conclusion: Writing Back, Reading Forward
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Stephanie M. Hilger is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature and German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.