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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Potter, Edward T.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell & Brewer, 2012.
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture ; v. 112.
Temas:
1700-1799
Theater > Germany > History > 18th century.
Marriage in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Théâtre > Allemagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Mariage dans la littérature.
Identité de genre dans la littérature.
DRAMA > Continental European.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > European > German.
Theater.
Deutsch
Komödie
Aufklärung
Eheschließung > Motiv
Geschlechterrolle > Motiv
Begierde > Motiv
Theater
Germany.
Deutschland
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontcover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Comedy, the Sentimenta lMarriage, and Modes of Resistance; 1: Promoting the Sentimental Marriage in Theory and in Practice; 2: The Virgin Huntress Tamed: J.C. Gottsched's Atalanta and the Erasure of Female Autonomy; 3: Marriage Brokering at the Expense of Economics: C.F. Gellert's Die zärtlichen Schwestern; 4: The Clothes Make the Man: J.E. Schlegel's Der Triumph der guten Frauen; 5: Cross-Dressing and Gender Performance in G.E. Lessing's Der Misogyne.
  • 6: Sickness Masks Desire in Th. J. Quistorp's Der Hypochondrist Conclusion; Works Cited; Index; Backcover.

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