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Interiority in German Women's Writing

Interiority in German Women's Writing

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Series: Early Modern Feminisms

Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 1644534258
ISBN13: 9781644534250
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: Jul 14 2026
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.92 Depth: 9.48
Language: English

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 the Age of Sensibility (Empfindsamkeit) to the Romantic era. At the same time, it makes a claim for and explores the ramifications of understanding interiority as a feminine discourse. Contributors investigate the works of women authors who searched to find rescue from their cultural and personal entrapment via creative spaces and various modes of interiority in theatrical performances, poetic writings, letters, biographical narratives, prose, and fairy tales. From the case studies and literary analyses in the volume, interiority emerges as a spectrum of approaches to defining, resisting, and transforming the innermost self.

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