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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Rochester, N.Y. :
Boydell & Brewer,
2012.
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| Collection: | Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture ;
v. 112. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.