In the Shadow of Olympus - German Women Writers Around 1800

This anthology represents the first sustained feminist examination of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century German women writers in English. These essays highlight the literature produced by German women in the period 1790-1810, framing the discussions with a comparative orientation. The book analyzes in culturally specific detail how these authors came to constitute the first generation of writing women in Germany at a time when Goethe set the standard for literary production. Each essay focuses on the ambivalence of the author(s) toward literary and social models. The authors treated include Rahel Varnhagen, Charlotte von Stein, Friederike Helene Unger, Bettine von Arnim, Caroline Schlegel-Schelling, Sophie Albrecht, Therese Huber, Sophie Mereau, Sophie von La Roche, Henriette Frolich, and Benedikte Naubert.

About the author

Katherine R. Goodman is Associate Professor of German at Brown University.
Edith Waldstein is Associate Professor of Humanities at Wartburg College.

Product details

• Assisted by: Katherine R Goodman (Editor), Katherine R. Goodman (Editor), Edith Waldstein (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.02.1992
• EAN: 9780791407431
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0743-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Suny Series in Feminist Critic; Suny Series in Feminist Critic; Suny Feminist Criticism and Th
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education