EAN: 9783039103010

LANDMARKS IN GERMAN WOMENS WRITING KARTONIERT (TB)

This volume focuses on twelve women writers from the Middle Ages to the present day who have
made a major contribution to German literature. It includes portraits of Mechthild von
Magdeburg  the medieval nun who ushered in the tradition of mystical writing in German  Sophie
von La Roche  whose masterly novels and other writings had a far-reaching impact on the culture
of the late Enlightenment  Annette von Droste-Hülshoff  one of the greatest nineteenth-century
poets  and Christa Wolf  author and prominent public intellectual who produced many key works
of East German literature. The essays place the writers in the context of their period  and
examine how their position as women affected what they wrote and the reception of their texts.
The volume is based on a series of lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge by members
of the Department of German and guest speakers. All the contributors are experts in the fields
they address.

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