{"product_id":"great-books-by-german-women-in-the-age-of-emotion-1770-1820-9781640140974","title":"Great Books by German Women in the Age of Emotion, 1770-1820","description":"\u003cb\u003eEmphasizing the role of and portrayal of emotion, this study argues for the inclusion of six late-eighteenth-century German-language novels by and about women in a revised canon.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiterature written by women in German during the \"Age of Goethe\" was largely considered unworthy \u003ci\u003eTrivialliteratur\u003c\/i\u003e. Using insights from Gender Studies yet acknowledging the need for a literary canon, \u003ci\u003eGreat Books by German Women\u003c\/i\u003e offers a critical interpretation of six canon-worthy German novels written by women in the period, which it calls the \"Age of Emotion.\" The novels are chosen because they depict women's ordinary yet interesting lives and because each contains prose particularly expressive of emotion. Sophie von La Roche's\u003ci\u003e Die Geschichte \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003edes Fräuleins von Sternheim\u003c\/i\u003e draws on the tradition of the epistolary novel while finding new ways to depict empathetic emotions. Friederike Unger's \u003ci\u003eJulchen Grünthal \u003c\/i\u003ebrings to the \u003ci\u003eFrauenroman \u003c\/i\u003eor women's novel the use of irony to portray a heroine's emotions during her coming of age. Sophie Mereau's \u003ci\u003eBlütenalter der Empfindung \u003c\/i\u003eimagines women's affinity for the philosophical sublime, while Caroline Wolzogen depicts female desire in her \u003ci\u003eAgnes von Lilien\u003c\/i\u003e: both add lyricism to their prose, capturing sensual emotions. Karoline Fischer's \u003ci\u003eDie Honigmonathe\u003c\/i\u003e explores the agony that extreme emotions cause - not only for women but for men. And Caroline Pichler's \u003ci\u003eFrauenwürde\u003c\/i\u003e expands the focus from a young heroine to multiple mature characters. This study concludes that the influence of these six works was in no way trivial, either in portraying women's lives and emotions or in the history of German literature.","brand":"Margaretmary Daley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48268345213179,"sku":"9781640140974","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781640140974.jpg?v=1772485784","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/great-books-by-german-women-in-the-age-of-emotion-1770-1820-9781640140974","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}