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“So pöbelhaft die Sprache in diesem gantzen Briefe ist.”

Fiktive Leserbriefe in den Vernünfftigen Tadlerinnen und die Popularisierung eines vernünftigen Briefideals

“How Boorish the Language in This Entire Letter is!”

Fictitious Letters to the Editor in the Reasonably Critical Women (Vernünfftige Tadlerinnen) and the Popularization of a Rational Ideal of Letter-writing
In: Daphnis
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Stephanie Blum Universität des Saarlandes Saarbrücken Deutschland

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Abstract

Letters to the editor in the moral weeklies represent a special form of epistolary practice in the early 18th century, which is examined in this article on the basis of Johann Christoph Gottsched’s Die Vernünfftigen Tadlerinnen. Within the didactic concept of the journal, a fictitious correspondence between the fictitious editors and their supposed readers takes place, contributing to the dialogicity of the piece and suggesting that the magazine is widely perceived. Furthermore, letter-writing is addressed with the aim of improving the written German language and is repeatedly linked to the question of female education. Overall, an affinity between letter-writing guides and the moral weekly is elaborated, which suggests a use of the letter in the course of a popularization of knowledge.

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