Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Comedy, the Sentimental Marriage, and Modes of Resistance
- 1 Promoting the Sentimental Marriage in Theory and in Practice
- 2 The Virgin Huntress Tamed: J. C. Gottsched's Atalanta and the Erasure of Female Autonomy
- 3 Marriage Brokering at the Expense of Economics: C. F. Gellert's Die zärtlichen Schwestern
- 4 The Clothes Make the Man: J. E. Schlegel's Der Triumph der guten Frauen
- 5 Cross-Dressing and Gender Performance in G. E. Lessing's Der Misogyne
- 6 Sickness Masks Desire in Th. J. Quistorp's Der Hypochondrist
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Comedy, the Sentimental Marriage, and Modes of Resistance
- 1 Promoting the Sentimental Marriage in Theory and in Practice
- 2 The Virgin Huntress Tamed: J. C. Gottsched's Atalanta and the Erasure of Female Autonomy
- 3 Marriage Brokering at the Expense of Economics: C. F. Gellert's Die zärtlichen Schwestern
- 4 The Clothes Make the Man: J. E. Schlegel's Der Triumph der guten Frauen
- 5 Cross-Dressing and Gender Performance in G. E. Lessing's Der Misogyne
- 6 Sickness Masks Desire in Th. J. Quistorp's Der Hypochondrist
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2012