Poesis and Praxis in Rahel Varnhagen's Letters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4070906 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kay Goodman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Issue | 27 |
| Pages | 123 |
| Publication date | 1982-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New German Critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-033X • E-ISSN: 1558-1462 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/487988 |
| OpenAlex | W2323070476 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
When German feminists trace their literary and cultural roots, they usually begin with the romantic women living around 1800. It was the time of the great Berlin salons and the new romantic liaisons, and both of these phenomena challenged a strictly domestic image of women.' The aura of sexual liberation in the lives of Caroline (MichaelisB6hmer-Schlegel) Schelling and Dorothea (Mendelssohn-Veit) Schlegel draws the most colorful attention, but a more profound admiration generally accompanies the regard for Rahel Varnhagen and Bettina von Arnim.2 When letters by these women first appeared in the 1830s, they excited, outraged, or simply puzzled readers; but even then their peculiar effect on women was apparent to anyone who cared to look. If women in mid-19th-century Germany did not all agree with the radical passions expressed in these letters, neither could many of them quite deny their attraction and sense of identification.3
Art · Epistemology · Literature · Praxis · German Literature and Culture Studies · Linguistic research and analysis · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2015 (33) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |