Article: Towards Emancipation: German Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century.(Review)

By Carol Diethe. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 1998. Pp. viii + 215. [pounds]30.00.

The title of this illustrated volume refers to an evolution traceable through the lives, writing and thought of influential nineteenth-century women writers, read from a feminist perspective. These writers are mainly obscured today, such that often the author can cite few or no recent secondary sources, or none in English. Thus, many of the readings provided here are without precedent in a modern English-language study.

Following an introduction, the first chapter considers the 'Romantic legacy' for the salonieres Henriette Herz and Rahel Varnhagen, and the work of ...

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