Interiority in German Women's Writing
Will be published approx. on 14. July 2026
Book
Hardback
246 pages
978-1-64453-426-7 (ISBN)
Description
Interiority in German Women's Writing for the first time systematically gathers and engages with contributions of German women authors to the discourse on interiority (Innerlichkeit) from 1750 to 1850. This volume shifts the recent focus on abstract theoretical and medical discourses on inwardness to the origins of interiority in literature and philosophy as written and experienced by women from the Age of Sensibility (Empfindsamkeit) to the Romantic era. At the same time, it makes a claim for and explores the ramifications of understanding interiority as a feminine discourse. Contributors investigate the works of women authors who searched to find rescue from their cultural and personal entrapment via creative spaces and various modes of interiority in theatrical performances, poetic writings, letters, biographical narratives, prose, and fairy tales. From the case studies and literary analyses in the volume, interiority emerges as a spectrum of approaches to defining, resisting, and transforming the innermost self.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
4 B-W images
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
513 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64453-426-7 (9781644534267)
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Beate Allert is a professor of German and comparative literature at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Amy Emm is an associate professor and director of the German program at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina.
Amy Emm is an associate professor and director of the German program at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina.
Content
Introduction
BEATE ALLERT AND AMY EMM
Part I. Liminality
1. Karoline von Guenderrode's Theatrical Interiority
AMY EMM
2. Interiority, Place, and Female Creativity: Philippine Gatterer Engelhard and Sophie Albrecht
LIESL ALLINGHAM
3. Philomela's Song: The Poetics of Intersubjective Interiority in Selected Works by Caroline Rudolphi and Juliane Reichardt, nee Benda
FRANCIEN MARKX
Part II. Entrapment and Escape
4. A Shield and a Grave: The Duality of Gothic Interiority in Caroline de la Motte Fouque's "Das Fraeulein vom Thurme"
SARA LULY
5. Interiority as Impossible Refuge in Sophie Tieck's Tale "Der Einsiedler und die Nonne" (The Hermit and the Nun)
CHRISTINA M. WEILER
6. Interiority and Apotheosis in Three Poetic Idylls
MARGARETMARY DALEY
Part III. Private and Shared Communications
7. Interiority as Goal or Impossibility in Sophie von La Roche's Rosaliens Briefe an ihre Freundinn Mariane von St** and Friederike Helene Unger's Julchen Gruenthal
MONIKA NENON
8. Writing a Life: Caroline Flachsland Herder
BJOERN HAMBSCH
Part IV. Interiority and Expression Through Materials
9. "O, wie herrlich war meine Bluetezeit": The Vocal Paper of Helmina von Chezy
CATRIONA MACLEOD
10. Annette von Droste-Huelshoff's Poem "The Marl-pit": From Rocks to Wool and Sea Silk
BEATE ALLERT
Notes on Contributors
Index
BEATE ALLERT AND AMY EMM
Part I. Liminality
1. Karoline von Guenderrode's Theatrical Interiority
AMY EMM
2. Interiority, Place, and Female Creativity: Philippine Gatterer Engelhard and Sophie Albrecht
LIESL ALLINGHAM
3. Philomela's Song: The Poetics of Intersubjective Interiority in Selected Works by Caroline Rudolphi and Juliane Reichardt, nee Benda
FRANCIEN MARKX
Part II. Entrapment and Escape
4. A Shield and a Grave: The Duality of Gothic Interiority in Caroline de la Motte Fouque's "Das Fraeulein vom Thurme"
SARA LULY
5. Interiority as Impossible Refuge in Sophie Tieck's Tale "Der Einsiedler und die Nonne" (The Hermit and the Nun)
CHRISTINA M. WEILER
6. Interiority and Apotheosis in Three Poetic Idylls
MARGARETMARY DALEY
Part III. Private and Shared Communications
7. Interiority as Goal or Impossibility in Sophie von La Roche's Rosaliens Briefe an ihre Freundinn Mariane von St** and Friederike Helene Unger's Julchen Gruenthal
MONIKA NENON
8. Writing a Life: Caroline Flachsland Herder
BJOERN HAMBSCH
Part IV. Interiority and Expression Through Materials
9. "O, wie herrlich war meine Bluetezeit": The Vocal Paper of Helmina von Chezy
CATRIONA MACLEOD
10. Annette von Droste-Huelshoff's Poem "The Marl-pit": From Rocks to Wool and Sea Silk
BEATE ALLERT
Notes on Contributors
Index