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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.
Contents
Introduction
BEATE ALLERT AND AMY EMM
Part I. Liminality
1. Karoline von Günderrode's Theatrical Interiority
AMY EMM
2. Interiority, Place, and Female Creativity: Philippine Gatterer Engelhard and Sophie Albrecht
LIESL ALLINGHAM
3. Philomela's Song: The Poetics of Intersubjective Interiority in Selected Works by Caroline Rudolphi and Juliane Reichardt, née Benda
FRANCIEN MARKX
Part II. Entrapment and Escape
4. A Shield and a Grave: The Duality of Gothic Interiority in Caroline de la Motte Fouqué's "Das Fräulein vom Thurme"
SARA LULY
5. Interiority as Impossible Refuge in Sophie Tieck's Tale "Der Einsiedler und die Nonne" (The Hermit and the Nun)
CHRISTINA M. WEILER
6. Interiority and Apotheosis in Three Poetic Idylls
MARGARETMARY DALEY
Part III. Private and Shared Communications
7. Interiority as Goal or Impossibility in Sophie von La Roche's Rosaliens Briefe an ihre Freundinn Mariane von St** and Friederike Helene Unger's Julchen Grünthal
MONIKA NENON
8. Writing a Life: Caroline Flachsland Herder
BJÖRN HAMBSCH
Part IV. Interiority and Expression Through Materials
9. "O, wie herrlich war meine Blütezeit": The Vocal Paper of Helmina von Chézy
CATRIONA MACLEOD
10. Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's Poem "The Marl-pit": From Rocks to Wool and Sea Silk
BEATE ALLERT
Notes on Contributors
Index



