'Around 1800': Reassessing the Role of German Women Writers in Literary Production of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: Review Essay

Autor: Susan L. Cocalis
Rok vydání: 1993
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Zdroj: Women in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature & Culture. 8:159-177
ISSN: 1940-512X
Popis: In determining women's role in German literary production of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, feminist critics are often confronted with the problem of how they should refer to that time without undue recourse to the usual nomenclature for stylistic periods (e.g., enlightenment, classicism, romanticism), hierarchical genre distinctions (e.g., "Frauenroman"), value judgments based on canonical standards, or designations like the "Age of Goethe," all of which have contributed to the marginalization of women's writing in traditional literary historiogra phy. Thus readers will often search in vain for pronouncements of
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