Women write back : : strategies of response and the dynamics of European literary culture, 1790-1805 / / Stephanie M. Hilger.

Women Write Back explores the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women’s responses to texts written by well-known Enlightment figures. Hilger investigates the authorial strategies employed by Karoline von Günderrode, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Julie de Krüdener, and Helen Maria Williams, whos...

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Superior document:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 124
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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 124.
Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Women Write Back
  • Gender and Genre: Helen Maria Williams’ Julia, a Novel
  • Adventurous Tales: Ellis Cornelia Knight’s Dinarbas; a Tale: Being a Continuation of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
  • Staging Islam: Karoline von Günderrode’s Mahomed, der Prophet von Mekka
  • The Letter and the Body: Julie de Krüdener’s Valérie
  • Writing Back, Reading Forward
  • Bibliography.