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Article: Thalia's Daughters: German Women Dramatists from the Eighteenth Century to the Present.
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- Journal of European Studies
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
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This volume arose out of the 1992 MLA convention in New York, and reflects the recent growth of interest in German women's writing for the stage, which the editors recognize as 'part of a vital and diverse literary tradition' (p.1). The diversity is illustrated in contributions on Luise Gottsched, Catherine the Great, Elise Burger, Charlotte von Stein, Caroline von Wolzogen, Karoline von Gunderrode, Annette von Droste-Hulshoff, Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Else Lasker-Schuler, Ingeborg Drewitz, Ingeborg Bachmann, Gerlind Reinshagen, Elfriede Jelinek, Ginka Steinwachs, Ria Endres and Kerstin Specht. Two mini-editions in appendices (of von Stein's ...