The German Woman in the Age of Enlightenment : : A Study in the Drama from Gottsched to Lessing / / S. Etta Schreiber.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Schreiber, S. Etta,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1948]; ©1948
• Year of Publication: 1948
• Language: English
• Series: Number Nineteen of the Columbia University Germanic Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Introduction --; I. The Moral Weeklies --; II. Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700-1766) --; III. Hinrich Borkenstein (1705-1777) --; IV. Frau Gottsched (1713-1762) --; V. Johann Christian Krüger --; VI. Johann Elias Schlegel (1718-1749) --; VII. Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715-1769) --; VIII. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781). Early Plays --; IX. Christian Felix Weisse (1726-1804). Comedies --; X. Christian Felix Weisse. Sentimental Comedies and Domestic Tragedies --; XI. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Masterworks --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231894166; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/schr93530
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: S. Etta Schreiber.

Studies the status of women during the critical years of the "Aufkarung". Looks at restrictions and conventions governing their lives in a period when the increasing wealth and the greater leisure of its women opened up new vistas on the social horizon.