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The German Woman in the Age of Enlightenment : A Study in the Drama from Gottsched to Lessing /

Schreiber, S. Etta

The German Woman in the Age of Enlightenment : A Study in the Drama from Gottsched to Lessing / S. Etta Schreiber. - 1 online resource - Number Nineteen of the Columbia University Germanic Studies .

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. The Moral Weeklies -- II. Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700-1766) -- III. Hinrich Borkenstein (1705-1777) -- IV. Frau Gottsched (1713-1762) -- V. Johann Christian Krüger -- VI. Johann Elias Schlegel (1718-1749) -- VII. Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715-1769) -- VIII. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781). Early Plays -- IX. Christian Felix Weisse (1726-1804). Comedies -- X. Christian Felix Weisse. Sentimental Comedies and Domestic Tragedies -- XI. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Masterworks -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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Studies the status of women during the critical years of the "Aufkarung". Looks at restrictions and conventions governing their lives in a period when the increasing wealth and the greater leisure of its women opened up new vistas on the social horizon.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780231935302 9780231894166

10.7312/schr93530 doi


HISTORY / Europe / Germany.