Sappho in the Shadows : Essays on the Work of German Women Poets of the Age of Goethe (1749-1832), with Translations of Their Poetry into English

by Harper, Anthony J.

• ISBN13: 9783906762838
• ISBN10: 3906762831
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Summary

Much scholarship and research has been devoted to the remarkable flowering of German literature during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Nevertheless the contribution made by women writers remains comparatively unknown, especially in the English-speaking world. Sappho in the Shadows seeks to rectify this by examining and setting in a social and literary context the life and work of seven female poets, many of whom defied convention in an attempt to establish an independent identity. Each chapter is accompanied by examples of their poetry, together with English translations. The intention is to render the achievement of these pioneering figures more accessible to all those interested in womens' writing in the Classical/Romantic period.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(8)
Anthony J. Harper
Margaret C. Ives
Anna Luise Karsch (1722--1791): a brave woman goes to war	15	(38)
Margaret C. Ives
Gabriel Baumberg (1766--1839): in praise of love and marriage	53	(34)
Margaret C. Ives
Karoline von Gunderrode (1780--1806): the `Tian' legend	87	(26)
Margaret C. Ives
Sophie Mereau (1770--1806): living to love and loving to live	113	(32)
Anthony J. Harper
Friederike Brun (1765--1835): in tears too there is joy	145	(44)
Brian Keith-Smith
Luise Hensel (1798--1876): a little bird sits captive within its narrow cell	189	(34)
Anthony J. Harper
Annette von Droste-Hulshoff (1797--1848): the poet of the ever-open wounds	223	(40)
Marion E. Gibbs
Select Bibliography	263	(16)
Notes on the Contributors	279