Emancypacja jako rzeczywistość wyimaginowana w powieściach epistolarnych Sophie von La Roche i Sophie Mereau
Emancipation as an imaginary reality in the epistolary novels of Sophie von La Roche and Sophie Mereau

Author(s): Karina Becker
Subject(s): German Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: Sophie von La Roche creates in her epistolary novel entitled Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim [The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim] (1771) an image of a modern, emancipated woman that remains in opposition to the images of women and men of epistolary novels written by men, such as in Goethe‘s The Sufferings of Young Werther (1774). Sophie Mereau, on the other hand, in her epistolary novel Amanda und Eduard [Amanda and Ewdard] (1803) boldly takes up the taboo subject of extramarital sex and women‘s bodily sensations. Although the views of both writers were ahead of their time, they still remained merely an imaginary concept of femininity.

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