"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 Gunderrode, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Julie de Krudener, and Helen Maria Williams, whose works engage Voltaire's "Mahomet," Johnson's "Rasselas," Goethe's "Werther," and Rousseau's "Julie." The analysis of these women's texts sheds light on the literary culture of a period that deemed itself not only enlightened but also egalitarian.
"Women Write Back" explores the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women's responses to texts written by well-known Enlightment figures. Hi...
In the wake of the French Revolution, history was no longer imagined as a cyclical process in which the succession of ruling dynasties was as predictable as the change in the seasons. Contemporaries wrestled with the meaning of this historical rupture, which represented both the progress of the Enlightenment and the darkness of the Terreur. French authors discussed the political events in their country, but they were not the only ones to do so. As the effects of the French Revolution became more palpable across the border, German authors pondered their implications in newspapers, political...
In the wake of the French Revolution, history was no longer imagined as a cyclical process in which the succession of ruling dynasties was as predicta...
