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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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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
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Table of Contents:
  • 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