Women and literature in the Goethe era (1770-1820) [[electronic resource] ] : determined dilettantes / / Helen Fronius

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792227803321
• Autore: Fronius Helen <1975->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Clarendon Press; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 0-19-152624-X; 1-281-16073-3; 9786611160739; 1-4356-0689-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Collana: Oxford modern languages and literature monographs
• Disciplina: 830.9/928709033
• Soggetti: German literature - Women authors - History and criticism; Women and literature - Germany - History - 18th century; Women and literature - Germany - History - 19th century; Women authors, German - 18th century; Women authors, German - 19th century; Sex role - Germany - History - 18th century; Sex role - Germany - History - 19th century; Women - Books and reading - Germany - History - 18th century; Women - Books and reading - Germany - History - 19th century; Publishers and publishing - Germany - History - 18th century; Publishers and publishing - Germany - History - 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-267) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 'Weiber = Apologeten' and 'Mode-Misogyne' : ideologies of gender -- 'Über die Begierde der Weiber, Schriftstellerei zu treiben' : authorship and gender -- 'Sollte ich gar nicht lesen, dann könnte ich von Sinnen kommen' : women and reading -- 'Was will der reiche Mann der armen Frau für diese Arbeit geben?' : women writers and the literary market -- 'Gedrückt, aber nicht unterdrückt' : women and the public sphere.
• Sommario/riassunto: Late eighteenth-century German literature was dominated by men. ; Women were discouraged from reading and scorned as writers, but the attempt to exclude did not always succeed. This study combines archival research, literary analysis, and statistical evidence to give a sociological-historical overview of the conditions of women's literary production. - ;The Goethe era of German literature was dominated by men. Women were discouraged from reading and scorned as writers; Schiller saw female writers as typical 'dilettantes'. But the attempt to exclude did not always succeed, and the growing literar