| Public Voices: Political Discourse in the Writings of Caroline de la Motte Fouqué Contributor(s): Sammons, Jeffrey L. (Editor), Baumgartner, Karin (Author) |
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ISBN: 3039115758 ISBN-13: 9783039115754 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $90.01 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Literary Criticism | European - German - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 833.7 |
| LCCN: 2008041443 |
| Series: North American Studies in 19th-Century German Literature |
| Physical Information: 276 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book examines the possibilities of political theorizing in the writings of early nineteenth-century German women and develops a new theory of reading women's domestic fiction. Drawing on feminism, new historicism, and hermeneutics for its theoretical framework, the study suggests significant changes to J rgen Habermas's concept of the public sphere and women's role within it. The book re-evaluates the genre of domestic fiction and traces its use by women writers for political symbolism. Through novels, educational treatises, conduct manuals, poetry, and history books for women and children Caroline Fouqu , the principal voice in this study, and other authors of the period participated in the key debates of the early nineteenth century, among them the anguished discussions about the crisis in masculinity after the defeat of the Prussian army in 1806, the discourses of national identity, the construction of a national past, and the reorganization of the feudal state. |
