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Article: Little Detours. The Letters and Plays of Luise Gottsched (1713-1 762).(Review)
- Article from:
- Journal of European Studies
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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Little Detours. The Letters and Plays of Luise Gottsched (1713-1 762). By Susanne Kord. Columbia SC: Camden Hous, 2000. (Distributed by Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk.) Pp. 222. [pound]40.00.
This book does some creditable spadework by showing how Luise Gottsched has been 'edited out' of German literary history and read the wrong way by not being seen in the context of her times, e.g., accused of a lack of originality, where originality was not the criterion by which much of her literary output was meant to be assessed. The first printed edition of her letters left them truncated and gave rise to a series of myths about her. The letters tell us more about ...