Women Write Back Strategies of Response and the Dynamics of European Literary Culture, 1790-1805 |
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| Author:
| Hilger, Stephanie M. |
| Series title: | Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-90-420-2578-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2009 |
| Publisher: | BRILL
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $66.00 |
Book Description:
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Women Write Backexplores 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...
More Description Women Write Backexplores 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.