The Mask and the Quill - Actress-Writers in Germany from Enlightenment to Romanticism

In the last three decades of the eighteenth century, a small but significant number of German actresses, including Sophie Albrecht (1757-1840), Marianne Ehrmann (1755-1795) and Elise B rger (1769-1833), began to publish poetry, autobiography, drama and short fiction under their own names. These "actress-writers" came of age at a time when the status of the actress was being radically redefined in accordance with Enlightenment aesthetics and the cult of sensibility. The Mask and the Quill is an exploration of this generation of actress-writers, their significance for German literary and cultural history, and their attempts to come to terms with the new image of the actress through literature and performance.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Caroline's Daughters: The Actress as Writer Chapter 2 Chapter 1: Inventing the Gefühlsschauspielerin: Charlotte Ackermann (1757-75) Chapter 3 Chapter 2: Stages of Loss: Sophie Albrecht (1757-1840) Chapter 4 Chapter 3: Amalie's Critique of Theatrical Reason: Marianne Ehrmann (1755-95) Chapter 5 Chapter 4: Antique, Modern, and Eternally Beautiful: Elise Bürger (1769-1833) and Salon Performance

About the author

By Mary Helen Dupree

Product details

• Authors: Mary Dupree, Mary Helen Dupree
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611480245
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-024-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 492 g
• Series: New Studies in the Age of Goethe; New Studies in the Age of Goet; New Studies in the Age of Goethe; New Studies in the Age of Goet; Bucknell University Press
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies