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Marriage, gender, and desire in early Enlightenment German comedy /
The new literary comedies of the 1740s propagated a new sentimental discourse promoting marriage based on love while devaluing the traditional socioeconomic foundations of marriage. Yet in a number of these same comedies, alternative gender roles and sexual behaviors call the primacy of marriage int...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Rochester, N.Y. :
Boydell & Brewer,
2012.
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| Colección: | Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture ;
v. 112. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The new literary comedies of the 1740s propagated a new sentimental discourse promoting marriage based on love while devaluing the traditional socioeconomic foundations of marriage. Yet in a number of these same comedies, alternative gender roles and sexual behaviors call the primacy of marriage into question. Edward T. Potter examines this marital discourse in close readings of such plays, uncovering the ambiguity of eighteenth-century comedy's stance on marriage and highlighting its resistance to the emerging discourse of the sentimental marriage. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781571138248 1571138242 |