"Bitter Healing" is the first anthology of eighteenth- and
early-nineteenth-century German women's writing in English
translation. It goes far toward filling a major gap in literary
history by recovering for a wide audience the works of women who
were as famous during their lifetime as Wieland, Schiller, and
Goethe. Like those men, they wrote in the early modern period
spanning the transition from early Enlightenment to Romanticism.
Edited by Jeannine Blackwell and Susanne Zantop, this collection
assembles little-known writings by fifteen authors from various
social classes, religious backgrounds, and political persuasions.
They include the forgotten pietist theologian Johanna Eleonore
Petersen, the radical social reformer Bettina von Arnim, the
outspoken peasant's daughter Anna Luisa Karsch, the aristocrats
Annette von Droste-Hulshoff and Karoline von Gunderrode, and the
conservative monarchist Sophie von La Roche, among others. Their
autobriographies and letters, "moral" and not so moral tales,
lyrical and protest poems, plays, and fairy tales deal with
religious crisis, family conflict, and harmony, mothers and
daughters, wise women, romance and pain and the healing power of
love, self-understanding, escape, and the magical and humorous. The
variety and quality of the pieces testify to the creativity of
women writers during this first peak of literary activity in
Germany, the so-called Age of Goethe.
The editors have provided a short biography and bibliography for
each writer.
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