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    Charlotte Lennox’ Don Quixote im Reifrocke (1754) und der frühe Roman von Frauen in Deutschland

    Damrau, Peter (2012) Charlotte Lennox’ Don Quixote im Reifrocke (1754) und der frühe Roman von Frauen in Deutschland. German Studies Review 35 (2), pp. 227-248. ISSN 0149-7952.

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    Abstract

    The reception of 18th-century English female writers in Germany is a neglected area. Therefore, this article aims to rediscover the translations of Charlotte Lennox’s works, and her novel Don Quixote im Reifrocke (1754) in particular. This work was discussed in German literary journals and considered by leading German men of letters such as Lessing, Hamann, and Wieland. Through the disguise of the Don Quixote genre, Lennox challenged the ideal of female passivity at a very early stage and therefore stands at the beginning of a slowly changing identity and role of women in eighteenth-century Germany.

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    Item Type: Article
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 01 Oct 2012 10:43
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:31
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/5153

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