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Author: Stephanie M. Hilger
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint: University of Delaware Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.10cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.299kg
ISBN: 9781611495317
ISBN 10: 1611495318
Pages: 212
Publication Date: 24 May 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Focusing on the period from 1795 to 1820, Hilger discusses novels by six women-Therese Huber, Caroline de la Motte Fouque, Christine Westphalen, Regula Engel, Sophie von la Roche, and Henriette Froelich. These women's works were trivialized by their contemporaries, including Goethe, or were difficult to obtain (they are now available in electronic form). Each of the novels Hilger discusses criticizes exclusionary Enlightenment thinking, failed ideals of fraternity from the French Revolution, and the lack of social welfare for widows or victims of war. In discussing Sophie von La Roche's Erscheinungen am see oneida (1798), a novel about noble emigres living alone on an island in Lake Oneida (in upstate New York), Hilger reveals that European and Native American identities remain entirely stereotypical and hopelessly constricting. The prejudices of the society from which people wished to escape persist in a 'new' world that fails to foster intellectual, social, or gender freedom. Hilger also discusses the form, structure, and narrative voices of these novels, their previous commentators, and further avenues for research. Supporting her argument with an extensive bibliography and notes, Hilger offers fruitful approaches to these and similar works, demonstrating how such criticism can help redefine the literary canon. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above. * CHOICE *
Focusing on the period from 1795 to 1820, Hilger discusses novels by six women-Therese Huber, Caroline de la Motte Fouque, Christine Westphalen, Regula Engel, Sophie von la Roche, and Henriette Frolich. These women's works were trivialized by their contemporaries, including Goethe, or were difficult to obtain (they are now available in electronic form). Each of the novels Hilger discusses criticizes exclusionary Enlightenment thinking, failed ideals of fraternity from the French Revolution, and the lack of social welfare for widows or victims of war. In discussing Sophie von La Roche's Erscheinungen am see oneida (1798), a novel about noble emigres living alone on an island in Lake Oneida (in upstate New York), Hilger reveals that European and Native American identities remain entirely stereotypical and hopelessly constricting. The prejudices of the society from which people wished to escape persist in a 'new' world that fails to foster intellectual, social, or gender freedom. Hilger also discusses the form, structure, and narrative voices of these novels, their previous commentators, and further avenues for research. Supporting her argument with an extensive bibliography and notes, Hilger offers fruitful approaches to these and similar works, demonstrating how such criticism can help redefine the literary canon. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above. CHOICE
Author Information
Stephanie M. Hilger is associate professor of comparative literature, German, and gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
