Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lehleiter, Christine

Titel

Sophie von La Roche's Die Geschichte des Frauleins von Sternheim : conceptualizing female selfhood around 1800

Ist Teil von

• Women in German Yearbook, 2013, Vol.29, p.21

Ort / Verlag

University of Nebraska Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Literary texts that describe female protagonists are usually excluded from the genre of the Bildungsroman. There are two options to answer such exclusion: first, the introduction of a new genre, the "female Bildungsroman," or second, the questioning of the concept of the self that forms the basis of traditional definitions of the genre. The following article focuses on the second option by paying close attention to dress and masquerade in Sophie von La Roche's Lady Sternheim. I argue that La Roche develops a discursive notion of the self, which allows her to open up a space for female Bildung.