num_pages: 210
description: This book examines the early bourgeois idealization of women in German literature of the 1770s in relation to the cultural movements of Rationality, Sentimentality, and Storm and Stress. It investigates the changing female roles caused by the removal of the middle class family from the sphere of production during the eighteenth century. In particular, the book analyzes in depth the conflicting images of women presented in two transitional novels which had a strong impact on readers in the early 1770s, Sophie von La Roche's Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim and Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers.
language: English
title: Woman as Bourgeois Ideal
titlecomplete: Woman as Bourgeois Ideal (Studies in Modern German Literature)
publisher: Peter Lang Publishing