Dorothea Schlegel and the Challenges of Female Authorship and Identity

2021 ◽  
pp. 179-194
Author(s):  
Brigitte Sassen
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Friedrich Schlegel ◽  
Women Authors ◽  
Women Intellectuals ◽  
First Marriage ◽  
Female Authorship ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
And Gender

In this chapter, I explore the particular social, religious, and gender pressures faced by eighteenth-century women authors by considering these pressures within the context of three stages of the life of Dorothea Schlegel (born Brendel Mendelssohn): first, in her early life and first marriage, secondly, in her emergence as an intellectual and author during the years in Jena with Friedrich Schlegel and the early Romantics, and thirdly, in her post-Jena years when she was active as a translator and story-teller. The chapter looks at the reasons for her dissatisfaction with her first marriage and considers how women intellectuals and writers were viewed in the eighteenth century.

scholarly journals Aleksandra Xvostova, Nikolaj Karamzin and the Gendering of Toska

2015 ◽  
pp. 31-56
Author(s):  
Sara Dickinson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Female Subject ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
Women Authors ◽  
Strong Emotion ◽  
Literary Arguments ◽  
The Right ◽  
Women’S Writing

This article reviews the evolution of toska in eighteenth-century literary discourse to demonstrate this sentiment's profound connection with notions of femininity. That century's use of toska culminates in Aleksandra Xvostova's then popular Otryvki (Fragments, 1796), the emotional emphases of which were one of the reasons for its success. In fact, we argue that Russian women's writing contains a tradition of emotional expression that is lexically distinct from the male tradition. Xvostova’s emphatic and reiterative use of toska participates in a larger debate about gender and the 'ownership' of personal emotions and it was relevant to literary arguments about "feminization" that involved writers such as Nikolaj Karamzin and Vasilij Zukovskij, but also a number of women authors (e.g. Ekaterina Urusova, Anna Turčaninova, Elizaveta Dolgorukova, Anna Volkova), whose work asserts the right of the female subject to both suffer strong emotion and to express it.

Frances Brooke, Editor, and the Making of the Old Maid (1755–1756)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn R. King
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Female Authorship ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Old Maid

Kathryn King’s essay takes as its focus Frances Brooke’s Old Maid (1755–6), one of several crucial texts in a burst of female periodical editorial activity at mid-century. It offers a fresh reading of information about the Old Maid’s contributors, focusing especially on the marginal notes to the original issues inscribed by the paper’s chief contributor Lord Orrery. These annotations, King reveals, constitute a largely unquarried source of information about Brooke’s practices and her understanding of her role as editor. They moreover, cast light on her ambiguous relationship with the nobleman who supplied nearly a quarter of the paper’s contents. Brooke’s own contributions receive dedicated attention before King concludes by assessing why the female editor is often passed over in the stories we tell of female authorship in the eighteenth century.

The Trouble with Transgender “Rapists”

Screw Consent ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 94-116
Author(s):  
Joseph J. Fischel
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Sexual Misconduct ◽  
Central Problem ◽  
Sexual Offense ◽  
Sexual Autonomy ◽  
Gender Minority ◽  
Sexual And Gender Minority ◽  
Sexual Conduct ◽  
And Gender

This chapter surveys several cases of transgender men or butch women being convicted of sexual misconduct for deceiving their partners as to their assigned sex at birth. The conviction and categorization of this sexual conduct as sexual offense is troubling and wrong. These transgender “rapists” are not rapists, the sex is not sexual violence, and consent is not necessarily polluted by the undisclosed absence of a penis, the fact upon which most such cases and convictions rely. At the same time, these cases dramatize a central problem of consent’s scope: what do we consent to when we consent to sex? In this chapter, I propose that the deliberate contravention of an explicit conditional to sex should be a legal wrong and that such a narrowly tailored solution to the problem of sex-by-deception best protects sexual and gender minority defendants from phobic juries and judges while also facilitating sexual autonomy.

CHAPTER I

Germinal ◽  
2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Émile Zola
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century

The Grégoires’ property, La Piolaine, was situated two kilometres to the east of Montsou, on the Joiselle road. It was a large square house of no particular style, built at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Of the vast lands which had originally depended...

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