Article: Luise Gottsched the satirist.(Critical essay)

ABSTRACT

This article provides the first overview of Luise Gottsched's satirical writings and places them in their literary and historical context. Gottsched devoted much of her literary career to satire, and her texts deal with a range of social, artistic, philosophical, and religious themes. This was a bold undertaking-especially for a woman-in early eighteenth-century Germany. Gottsched appears to have been intent on broadening the intellectual horizons of the German public and involving them in various key debates. Her satires thus made an important contribution to German literature and culture of the early Enlightenment.

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