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Book Cover for: Public Voices; Political Discourse in the Writings of Caroline de la Motte Fouqué, Karin Baumgartner

Public Voices; Political Discourse in the Writings of Caroline de la Motte Fouqué

Karin Baumgartner

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This book examines the possibilities of political theorizing in the writings of early nineteenth-century German women and develops a new theory of reading women's domestic fiction. Drawing on feminism, new historicism, and hermeneutics for its theoretical framework, the study suggests significant changes to Jürgen Habermas's concept of the public sphere and women's role within it. The book re-evaluates the genre of domestic fiction and traces its use by women writers for political symbolism. Through novels, educational treatises, conduct manuals, poetry, and history books for women and children Caroline Fouqué, the principal voice in this study, and other authors of the period participated in the key debates of the early nineteenth century, among them the anguished discussions about the crisis in masculinity after the defeat of the Prussian army in 1806, the discourses of national identity, the construction of a national past, and the reorganization of the feudal state.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Peter Lang UK
  • Publish Date: Nov 18th, 2008
  • Pages: 280
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.59in - 0.84lb
  • EAN: 9783039115754
  • Categories: • General• European - German• Women Authors

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About the Author

The Author: Karin Baumgartner is Assistant Professor of German literature at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. She has published numerous articles on the early nineteenth century, in particular, on the political writings of German women. Her article «Staging the German Nation: Caroline Pichler's Dramatic Writing» (Modern Austrian Literature) won the Max Kade Award for best article in 2004.

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Author, journo, @theopedproject @takeleadwomen emeritaprof @MedillSchool, @TEDx speaker, 3 sons, 7 books. Out 7/2024: The Time We Have: Essays @NorthwesternUP

Great book event ⁦@NorthwesternU⁩ with @theopedproject author alums #publicvoices. ⁦@VioricaMarian1⁩ ⁦@MFalkoff⁩ Rachel Webster! ⁦@northwesternup⁩ https://t.co/0uebJ9RkhT

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Changing who writes history. Celebrating diverse intelligence. Making the world smarter through our #WriteToChangeTheWorld workshops & #PublicVoices fellowships

Check out the book "Following Jesus in a Warming World: A Christian Call to Climate Action" by @kmeyaardschaap, a #PublicVoices Fellow with @TheOpEdProject and @YaleClimateComm, who has deep expertise in the intersection of Christianity and climate action: https://t.co/0wCJuXVHpa https://t.co/bz8IAFrxcH

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Praise for this book

«Baumgartner's work is a necessary, significant, and welcomed addition to feminist scholarship on female authors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries [...].»
(Julie Koser, Goethe Yearbook)

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@micheleweldon
1 year

Author, journo, @theopedproject @takeleadwomen emeritaprof @MedillSchool, @TEDx speaker, 3 sons, 7 books. Out 7/2024: The Time We Have: Essays @NorthwesternUP

Great book event ⁦@NorthwesternU⁩ with @theopedproject author alums #publicvoices. ⁦@VioricaMarian1⁩ ⁦@MFalkoff⁩ Rachel Webster! ⁦@northwesternup⁩ https://t.co/0uebJ9RkhT

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The OpEd Project
@TheOpEdProject
2 years

Changing who writes history. Celebrating diverse intelligence. Making the world smarter through our #WriteToChangeTheWorld workshops & #PublicVoices fellowships

Check out the book "Following Jesus in a Warming World: A Christian Call to Climate Action" by @kmeyaardschaap, a #PublicVoices Fellow with @TheOpEdProject and @YaleClimateComm, who has deep expertise in the intersection of Christianity and climate action: https://t.co/0wCJuXVHpa https://t.co/bz8IAFrxcH

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