Marriage, Gender, and Desire in Early Enlightenment German Comedy

List of contents

Introduction: Comedy, the Sentimental Marriage, and Modes of Resistance
Promoting the Sentimental Marriage in Theory and in Practice
The Virgin Huntress Tamed: J. C. Gottsched's Atalanta and the Erasure of Female Autonomy
Marriage Brokering at the Expense of Economics: C. F. Gellert's Die zärtlichen Schwestern
The Clothes Make the Man: J. E. Schlegel's Der Triumphder guten Frauen
Cross-Dressing and Gender Performance in G. E. Lessing'sDer Misogyne
Sickness Masks Desire in Th. J. Quistorp's Der Hypochondrist
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index

About the author

Edward T. Potter

Product details

• Authors: Edward T Potter, Edward T. Potter
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2012
• EAN: 9781571135292
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-529-2
• No. of pages: 210
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature L
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories