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Women Write Back
Strategies of Response and the Dynamics of European Literary Culture, 1790-1805
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Women Write Back explores the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century womenâs responses to texts written by well-known Enlightment figures. Hilger investigates the authorial strategies employed by Karoline von Günderrode, Ellis Cornelia Knight, Julie de Krüdener, and Helen Maria Williams, whose works engage Voltaireâs Mahomet, Johnsonâs Rasselas, Goetheâs Werther, and Rousseauâs Julie. The analysis of these womenâs texts sheds light on the literary culture of a period that deemed itself not only enlightened but also egalitarian.
Stephanie M. Hilger is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature and German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
â[â¦] Happily, one of the strengths of Hilgerâs impressively-argued and well-researched study is that it persuasively shows how literary invention and political intervention are often inextricably intertwined and that blindness to one can mean blindness to the other.â - James Corby, University of Malta, in: The European Legacy, Vol 17.7 (2012) pp. 948-963
Introduction: Women Write Back
Gender and Genre: Helen Maria Williamâs Julia, a Novel
Adventurous Tales: Ellis Cornelia Knightâs Dinarbas; a Tale: Being a Continuation of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Staging Islam: Karoline von Günderrodeâs Mahomed, der Prophet von Mekka
The Letter and the Body: Julie de Krüdenerâs Valérie
Conclusion: Writing Back, Reading Forward
Bibliography
Gender and Genre: Helen Maria Williamâs Julia, a Novel
Adventurous Tales: Ellis Cornelia Knightâs Dinarbas; a Tale: Being a Continuation of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Staging Islam: Karoline von Günderrodeâs Mahomed, der Prophet von Mekka
The Letter and the Body: Julie de Krüdenerâs Valérie
Conclusion: Writing Back, Reading Forward
Bibliography