Interiority in German Women's Writing (Paperback)

Amy Emm

ISBN 10: 1644534258 / ISBN 13: 9781644534250

Published by University of Delaware Press, 2026

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Paperback. Interiority in German Women's Writing for the first time systematically gathers and engages with contributions of German women authors to the discourse on interiority (Innerlichkeit) from 1750 to 1850. This volume shifts the recent focus on abstract theoretical and medical discourses on inwardness to the origins of interiority in literature and philosophy as written and experienced by women from the Age of Sensibility (Empfindsamkeit) to the Romantic era. At the same time, it makes a claim for and explores the ramifications of understanding interiority as a feminine discourse. Contributors investigate the works of women authors who searched to find rescue from their cultural and personal entrapment via creative spaces and various modes of interiority in theatrical performances, poetic writings, letters, biographical narratives, prose, and fairy tales. From the case studies and literary analyses in the volume, interiority emerges as a spectrum of approaches to defining, resisting, and transforming the innermost self. Interiority in German Women's Writing reclaims interiority ("Innerlichkeit") as a feminine discourse with literary and philosophical origins in the Age of Sensibility ("Empfindsamkeit"). The volume gathers case studies and literary analyses through which interiority emerges as a spectrum of approaches to defining, resisting, and transforming the innermost self. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Interiority in German Women's Writing (Paperback)
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1644534258
• ISBN 13: 9781644534250
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Interiority in German Women’s Writing for the first time systematically gathers and engages with contributions of German women authors to the discourse on interiority (Innerlichkeit) from 1750 to 1850. This volume shifts the recent focus on abstract theoretical and medical discourses on inwardness to the origins of interiority in literature and philosophy as written and experienced by women from the Age of Sensibility (Empfindsamkeit) to the Romantic era. At the same time, it makes a claim for and explores the ramifications of understanding interiority as a feminine discourse. Contributors investigate the works of women authors who searched to find rescue from their cultural and personal entrapment via creative spaces and various modes of interiority in theatrical performances, poetic writings, letters, biographical narratives, prose, and fairy tales. From the case studies and literary analyses in the volume, interiority emerges as a spectrum of approaches to defining, resisting, and transforming the innermost self. 

About the Author

BEATE ALLERT is a professor of German and comparative literature at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

AMY EMM is an associate professor and director of the German program at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina.