Sappho in the Shadows

ISBN 10: 3906762831 / ISBN 13: 9783906762838

Published by Peter Lang, 2000

About this Item

Zustandsbeschreibung: Mängelexemplar. Essays on the work of German women poets of the age of Goethe (1749-1832), with translations of their poetry into English. Edited by Anthony Harper and Margaret Ives. This study examines the life and work of seven female poets, setting them in a social and literary context. Each chapter is accompanied by examples of their poetry, together with English translations. 280 Seiten, broschiert (British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature; vol. 19/Peter Lang Verlag 2000). Statt EUR 63,95. Gewicht: 405 g - Softcover/Taschenbuch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sappho in the Shadows
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3906762831
• ISBN 13: 9783906762838
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Wie Neu
• Weight: 405 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literatur der Goethezeit/Klassik
  • Frühe Frauenliteratur

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Synopsis

Much scholarship and research has been devoted to the remarkable flowering of German literature during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Nevertheless the contribution made by women writers remains comparatively unknown, especially in the English-speaking world. Sappho in the Shadows seeks to rectify this by examining and setting in a social and literary context the life and work of seven female poets, many of whom defied convention in an attempt to establish an independent identity. Each chapter is accompanied by examples of their poetry, together with English translations. The intention is to render the achievement of these pioneering figures more accessible to all those interested in womens' writing in the Classical/Romantic period.

About the Author

The Editors: Anthony J. Harper was born in 1938 and studied German at the University of Bristol. After teaching at the University of Edinburgh, he became Professor and Head of German Studies at the University of Strathclyde, taking early retirement in 1995. In 1998 he was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus.
Margaret C. Ives was born in 1938 and studied German at Bedford College, University of London. She was for some years Fellow in German of Girton College, Cambridge before moving to the University of Lancaster where she remained until her retirement as Reader Emerita in German Studies in 1997.