Marriage, gender, and desire in early enlightenment German comedy
By: Edward T. Potter
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781571135292
Subjects: Gender identity in literature; History; Marriage in literature; Theater and society; Theater
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Comedy, the sentimental marriage, and modes of resistance; title: Promoting the sentimental marriage in theory and in practice; title: The virgin huntress tamed: J. C. Gottsched's Atalanta and the erasure of female autonomy; title: Marriage brokering at the expense of economics: C. F. Gellert's Die Zartlichen schwestern; title: The clothes make the man: J. E. Schlegel's Der Triumph der guten frauen; title: Cross-dressing and gender performance in G. E. Lessing's Der Misogyne; title: Sickness masks desire in Th. J. Quistorp's Der Hypochondrist.