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Article: Amazons and Apprentices. Women and the German Parnassus in the Early Enlightenment.(Review)
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- Journal of European Studies
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- December 1, 2000
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Amazons and Apprentices. Women and the German Parnassus in the Early Enlightenment. By Katherine E. Goodman. Columbia SC: Camden House, 1999. (Distributed by Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk). Pp. 316. [pound]40.00
This is a study of the position of literary women in the early Enlightenment in Germany and how they struggled to make their voices heard. Goodman shows the term 'learned woman', when applied in this context, to be highly revealing, showing up cultural differences between England, France and Germany. At the outset she examines two leading lexicons (Corvinus, Eberti), and returns later to the second edition of Corvinus's Era uenzimmer lexikon to ...