Edward T. Potter

Marriage, Gender, and Desire in Early Enlightenment German Comedy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reveals eighteenth-century German comedies' inherent resistance - through their depiction of alternative gender roles and sexual behavior - to the emerging discourse of the sentimental marriage.

Produktdetails

• Studies in German Literature L Nr.112
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• New
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781571135292
• ISBN-10: 1571135294
• Artikelnr.: 33814863

Autorenporträt

Edward T. Potter

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Comedy, the Sentimental Marriage, and Modes of Resistance
Promoting the Sentimental Marriage in Theory and in Practice The Virgin
Huntress Tamed: J. C. Gottsched's Atalanta and the Erasure of Female
Autonomy Marriage Brokering at the Expense of Economics: C. F. Gellert's
Die zärtlichen Schwestern The Clothes Make the Man: J. E. Schlegel's Der
Triumphder guten Frauen Cross-Dressing and Gender Performance in G. E.
Lessing'sDer Misogyne Sickness Masks Desire in Th. J. Quistorp's Der
Hypochondrist Conclusion Works Cited Index