The Contested Quill: Literature by Women in Germany, 1770-1800This book charts the entrance of women into public writing in the culturally vibrant world of late eighteenth-century Germany. It gives an absorbing account of the failed autobiography of Friderika Baldinger; the successful fiction, disguised self-narratives, and innovative monthly of Sophie La Roche; the praised poetry of Philippine Englehard; the controversial journalism and novels of Marianne Ehrmann; and the poems and prose about love and suicide by Sophie Albrecht. The book offers a feminist reassessment of the relationship of texts by these eighteenth-century German women writers to traditional literary history and traces how the women changed the cultural discourse of their day. |
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IV | 37 |
V | 41 |
VI | 51 |
VII | 61 |
VIII | 71 |
IX | 74 |
X | 80 |
XXV | 202 |
XXVI | 213 |
XXVII | 221 |
XXVIII | 228 |
XXIX | 236 |
XXX | 245 |
XXXI | 258 |
XXXII | 263 |
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