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Little Detours - The Letters and Plays of Luise Gottsched [1713-1762] (Hardcover)
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Little Detours - The Letters and Plays of Luise Gottsched [1713-1762] (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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A critical re-examination of the most pivotal of German female
authors of the Enlightenment, focusing on her letters and plays.
Susanne Kord offers a critical re-examination of the traditional
image of this most pivotal of all female Enlightenment authors.
Central to her discussion are Gottsched's dramas and her letters to
Johann Christoph Gottsched, herhusband and mentor, and to Dorothea
Henriette von Runckel, her friend and confidante. Both the letters,
edited and censored by Runckel, and the plays, commissioned and
controlled by her husband, reveal a number of highly intriguing
"detours" from the path of conventionality: biographical
aberrations in her letters (her chagrined loyalty to her husband,
her highly passionate "friendship" with Runckel) and poetological
deviations from her husband's poeticsexpressed in her dramas. In
view of the fact that theory and poetology were considered an
exclusively male domain, one moreover largely dominated by her own
husband, Gottsched's perhaps most significant deviation consists of
her veiled contributions to the definition of major literary
concepts of her day, such as originality and authorship, in her
forewords and dramas. And originality and authorship are still the
issue: based on new evidence that calls Gottsched's exclusive
authorship of her own letters into question, Kord examines to what
extent scholars have for centuries perpetuated authorial images
that were decisively shaped by her original editors--her husband
and her best friend. Susanne Kord is professor of German at
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. She is co-editor of
Unwrapping Goethe's Weimar, also published by Camden House.
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