Product Description: Letters by German women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are voluminous, multifaceted texts with a wide reception and an underestimated history. French's study demonstrates the many dimensions of selected letters to challenge interpretations that have pejoratively categorized women's concerns in their writing...read more

Product Description: A study of the personal correspondence of leading female writers of the early nineteenth century as viewed from a feminist perspective. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: German literature about America has consistently occupied a marginal position in both German and American studies. This study attempts an overall interpretation of such nineteenth-century literature by charting its most significant narratives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Accounts of travel to England reached unprecedented levels of popularity in the German states in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Competition therefore increased for travel writers to produce travelogues which offered the most authentic, original and vibrant picture of England...read more