![]() “They know all that has been, is, and will be.” Their father is Zeus, their mother Mnemosyne, a titaness, the goddess of memory. There are not many surviving literary works older than the songs of Sappho: the down-to-earth Epic of Gilgamesh, the first ethereal hymns of the Rigveda, the inexhaustible epic poems of Homer and the many-stranded myths of Hesiod, in which it is written that the Muses know everything. He seems to me equal to the gods that manįor when I look at you, even a moment, no speakingīut all is to be dared, because even a person of poverty …īuddha and Confucius are not yet born, the idea of democracy and the word philosophy not yet conceived, but Eros-Aphrodite’s servant-already rules with an unyielding hand: as a god, one of the oldest and most powerful, but also as an illness with unclear symptoms that assails you out of the blue, a force of nature that descends on you, a storm that whips up the sea and uproots even oak trees, a wild, uncontrollable beast that suddenly pounces on you, unleashes unbridled pleasure, and causes unspeakable agonies-bittersweet, consuming passion. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.Īs Nebuchadnezzar II is plundering Jerusalem, Solon ruling Athens, Phoenician seafarers circumnavigating the African continent for the first time, and Anaximander postulating that an indefinite primal matter is the origin of all things and that the soul is air-like in nature, Sappho writes: This book is the first full-length account in English of women’s writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland to offer both an introduction to and a chronological overview of women’s writing in German-speaking countries from the Middle Ages to the present day.Fragment of parchment preserving parts of several poems by Sappho. It will appeal both to students and to scholars of German literature, and to a wider readership interested in women’s writing and gender studies wishing to learn about the diversity and development of writing by women in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The sixteen chapters, written by experts in their field, are designed to dovetail into a comprehensive account of women’s writing over a thousand-year period. Extensive guides to further reading, and a detailed guide to more than three hundred writers and their works, together with an index for crossreferencing, form an integral part of the volume. Published by the press syndicate of the university of cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom cambridge university pres s The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 2ru, UK 40 West 20th Street, New York, ny 10011–4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia She has written on Rilke, and on German women artists and writers, as well as translating Walter Haug, Literaturtheorie im deutschen Mittelalter, published in English as Vernacular Literary Theory in the Middle Ages (1997).Ī History of Women’s Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland Edited by J o C a t l i n g is Lecturer in German Literature and Language at the University of East Anglia. © Cambridge University Press 2000 This book is in copyright. ![]() Part II The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries 3 The Enlightenment 47 lesley sharpeĤ Revolution, Romanticism, Restoration (1789–1830) 68 judith purverĥ Women’s writing 1830–1890 88 patricia howeĦ Political writing and women’s journals: the 1848 revolutions 104 petra boden Part I Beginnings to 1700 1 The Middle Ages 13 margaret ivesĢ Women’s writing in the early modern period 27 h e l e n w a t a n a b e - o’k e l l y List of contributors ix Acknowledgements xiv First published 2000 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge Typeface teff Lexicon 9/13 ptĪ catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library isbn 2 9 hardback isbn 8 1 paperback Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.
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