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Article: Das 'weiblich Werck' in der Residenzstadt Altenburg (1672-1720): Gedichte und Briefe von Margaretha Susanna von Kuntsch und Frauen aus ihrem Umkreis.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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Das 'weiblich Werck' in der Residenzstadt Altenburg (1672-1720): Gedichte und Briefe von Margaretha Susanna von Kuntsch und Frauen aus ihrem Umkreis. Ed. by Anna Carrdus. Hildesheim and Zurich: Olms. 2004. 470 pp. 968. ISBN 3-487-12531-5.
German literary history knows of very few texts by women in the transitional period from the Baroque to Pietism and Early Enlightenment, apart from the religious poetry of Katharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633-94) and the prolific work of Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched (1713-62) as a major contributor to her husband Johann Christoph Gottsched's literary reform. Anna Carrdus has now more than filled that gap by providing a ...