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  • Interiority in German Women's Writing

    by Beate Allert, Amy Emm, Liesl Allingham, Francien Markx, Sara Luly, Christina Weiler, Margaretmary Daley, Monika Nenon, Björn Hambsch0, Catriona MacLeod1 ...
    Series series EARLY MODERN FEMINISMS
    Interiority in German Women’s Writing for the first time systematically gathers and engages with contributions of German women authors to the discourse on interiority (Innerlichkeit) from 1750 to 1850. This volume shifts the recent focus on abstract theoretical and medical discourses on inwardness to the origins of interiority in literature and philosophy as written and experienced by women from ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

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