Author

Publication

2000 - Camden House, Rochester, NY, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

55,500 words, Guess

Page Count

222 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing5188459
  • Goodreads189416

Classifications

  • DDC832/.5
  • LCCPT2253.G1 Z73 2000

Description

"Susanne Kord offers a critical re-examination of the traditional image of this most pivotal of all female Enlightenment authors. Central to Kord's discussion are Gottsched's dramas and her letters to Johann Christoph Gottsched, her husband and mentor, and to Dorothea Henriette von Runckel, her friend and confidante. Both the letters, edited and censored by Runckel, and the plays, commissioned and edited by her husband, reveal a number of intriguing "detours" from the path of conventionality: biographical aberrations in her letters (her chagrined loyalty to her husband, her passionate "friendship" with Runckel) and poetological deviations from her husband's poetics expressed in her dramas."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Topics

CorrespondenceGerman AuthorsAuthors, germanAuthors, correspondenceCriticism and interpretationAuthors, German -- 18th century -- Correspondence.Gottsched, Louise Adelgunde Victorie, 1713-1762 -- Correspondence.

Series Statement

  • Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

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