
Women Write Back
Strategies of Response and the Dynamics of European Literary Culture, 1790-1805
Stephanie M. Hilger(Author)
Rodopi (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
175 pages
978-90-420-2578-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 Guenderrode, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Julie de Kruedener, 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.
Reviews / Votes
"[...] Happily, one of the strengths of Hilger's impressively-argued and well-researched study is that it persuasively shows how literary invention and political intervention are often inextricably intertwined and that blindness to one can mean blindness to the other." - James Corby, University of Malta, in: The European Legacy, Vol 17.7 (2012) pp. 948-963More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
275 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-2578-3 (9789042025783)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Stephanie M. Hilger is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature and German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Content
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 Guenderrode's Mahomed, der Prophet von Mekka
The Letter and the Body: Julie de Kruedener's Valerie
Conclusion: Writing Back, Reading Forward
Bibliography
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 Guenderrode's Mahomed, der Prophet von Mekka
The Letter and the Body: Julie de Kruedener's Valerie
Conclusion: Writing Back, Reading Forward
Bibliography