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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Potter, Edward T.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell & Brewer, 2012.
Series:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture ; v. 112.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.