Wieland's Nude Bathers
Visual Pleasure and the Female Gaze
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9852082 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ritchie Robertson (Queen's University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-42 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | German Life and Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-8777 • E-ISSN: 1468-0483 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0483.2010.01517.x |
| PMID | 21186682 |
| OpenAlex | W1725942316 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In her essays on Wieland, written around 1980, Elizabeth Boa went against contemporary fashion both by praising a neglected writer and by vindicating the role of pleasure in the reception of literature. She noted how Wieland varies a literary topos – a man watching a woman bathing naked – by letting women watch men bathing naked. This topos most often occurs in the pastoral, a popular eighteenth-century genre. Various examples are examined to show that they suggest equality rather than male dominance in relations between the sexes: men watching women bathing in James Thomson and Gottfried Keller; an example involving cross-dressing in Kleist; and finally women watching men bathing naked in Swift, Voltaire and Wieland's Idris und Zenide
Art · Art history · Humanities · Literature · Pleasure · Topos theory · Art, Aesthetics, and Perception · German Literature and Culture Studies · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |