The Mask and the Quill: Actress-Writers in Germany from Enlightenment to Romanticism - Rilegato

Dupree, Mary Helen

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ISBN 10: 1611480248 ISBN 13: 9781611480245

Casa editrice: Bucknell Univ Pr, 2011

Riassunto

In the last three decades of the eighteenth century, a small but significant number of German actresses, including Sophie Albrecht (1757-1840), Marianne Ehrmann (1755-1795) and Elise Bürger (1769-1833), began to publish poetry, autobiography, drama and short fiction under their own names. These "actress-writers" came of age at a time when the status of the actress was being radically redefined in accordance with Enlightenment aesthetics and the cult of sensibility. The Mask and the Quill is an exploration of this generation of actress-writers, their significance for German literary and cultural history, and their attempts to come to terms with the new image of the actress through literature and performance.

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L'autore

Mary Helen Dupree is assistant professor of German at Georgetown University.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Bucknell Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1611480248
• ISBN 13: 9781611480245
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 200