Introduction: Harmony in Discord

Laura Martin

Section One: Wandering Women: Colonial and Travel Literature

A Garden of Her Own? Noble Savages and Superior Europeans in Sophie von La Roche's Erscheinungen am See Oneida (1798)

Elisabeth Krimmer

Briefe aus der romischen Freiheit - Dorothea Schlegel in Italien

Christina Ujma

Section Two: A Woman of Reason: L. A. V. Gottsched

`Heroine of Scholarship' and Woman Writer: L. A. V. Kulmus Gottsched's Die Pietisterev im Fischbein-Rocke; oder die doctormaßige Frau

Paola Bozzi

Minervas of the Eighteenth Century: Women's Voices of Reason among Chattering Hypocrites in Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched's Didactic Comedies

Lisa A. Rainwater van Suntum

Section Three: Women and Genre

From Woman to Woman: Benedikte Naubert's `Der kurze Mantel'

Anne Thiel

Bitter Comedy: The Dramatic Writing of Charlotte von Stein

Sarah Colvin

`Ein Bildungsmittel ohnegleichen': Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and the Theatre

Sarah Colvin

Section Four: Woman as Body, Woman as Race

Traumatic Identities: Race and Gender in Annette von Droste-Hulshoff's Die Judenbuche and Freud's Der Mann Moses

Andrew Webber

On the Presentation of the Body in the Work of Therese Huber and Johanna Schopenhauer

Anke Gilleir

Section Five: Beyond German Studies

Droste on the Costa? Cecilia Bohl von Faber: A Parallel Life

Carol Tully

Notes on Contributors