Challenging Separate Spheres

Contents: Marjanne E. Goozé: Challenging Separate Spheres: Female Bildung in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Germany - An Introduction - Anca L. Holden: Marianne Ehrmann's Ein Weib ein Wort - A Platform for Moral Education - Helga Schutte Watt: Memories and Fantasies: Sophie La Roche's Herbsttage - Laura Martin: Die neuen Volksmärchen der Deutschen: A New Twist on an Old Plot? The Rübezahl Legend in Benedikte Naubert and Johann Karl August Musäus - Laura Deiulio: The Voice of the schöne Seele: Rahel Levin Varnhagen and Pauline Wiesel as Readers of Weimar Classicism - Denise M. Della Rossa: «Was sollen unsre Töchter lesen?» Recommended Reading and Literary Bildung in the Women's Periodical Press - Tamara M. Zwick: The Bat at the Ball: Bourgeois Culture as a Written Practice in the Letters of Magdalena Pauli to Johanna Sieveking, 1786-1824 - Wendy Arons: «Lass mich sein, was ich bin»: Karoline Schulze-Kummerfeld's Performance of a Lifetime - Debbie Pinfold: «Wer die Frauen hat, der hat die Zukunft!» Women's Voices on the Revolutions of 1848-49: Fanny Lewald, Malwida von Meysenbug, and Johanna Kinkel - Birgit A. Jensen: «Was sind wir Dienstboten doch für elende Geschöpfe!» Female Working-Class Agency in Two German Autobiographies at the Turn of the Century - Elisabeth Krimmer: Abortive Bildung: Women Writers, Male Bonds, and Would-Be Fathers - Alicia L. Carter: Rezept zur Sittlichkeit: The Conduct Books of Henriette Davidis - Christine Kanz: Reproduktion und Bildung in Kultur und Wissenschaft um 1900.

The Editor: Marjanne E. Goozé is an Associate Professor of German at the University of Georgia. She has published journal articles and book chapters on writers such as Henriette Herz, Bettina von Arnim, Karoline von Günderrode, and Rahel Varnhagen. Her current research focuses on Jewish-German writers and the Berlin salon era. She is also the co-editor of the book, International Women's Writing: New Landscapes of Identity. She teaches courses on German literature from 1750 to the present, concentrating on the nineteenth-century, and on women and Jewish-German writers.

«As an ensemble, the essays collected in this volume chart out an impressive history of women's literary agency in the long nineteenth century.»
(Adrian Daub, Goethe Yearbook)