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Title: Französische Miscellen. Zwölfter - Dreizehnter Band [1805]
Description: Tübingen, Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, 1805. 1/4-leather. 19x11cm, 216 + 232 pp. Contemporary binder's quarter-leather.. Some rubbing. Some foxing. Bookplate. VG. ¶ Serial published between 1803-1806. ["In 1801, Helmina von Chézy (1783-1856), the grand-daughter of poet laureate Anna Luise Karsch, traveled to Paris to serve as a companion to Madame de Genlis. The talented Helmina and her mother, Karoline von Klenke, hoped that the acquaintance with Genlis would help Helmina develop her considerable writing skills. Very soon, Chézy and Genlis had a falling out and parted ways. Helmina took over the editorship of the Cotta journal Französische Miscellen, where she frequently reviewed the works of Madame de Genlis and the latter’s rival, Madame de Staël. In these reviews, I argue, Helmina searched for her own literary identity and a female literary network she could call her own. The tensions between these larger-than-life literary “mother-figures” found, however, a way into Helmina’s own writing where her rationalist training by Genlis and her own Romantic literary inclinations modeled on Staël's were at odds" - from the abstract of Karin Baumgartner's "In Search of Literary Mothers across the Rhine: The Influence of Madame de Genlis and Madame de Staël on the Writing of Helmna von Chézy"].

Keywords: French Literary History, German Literature, Women Writers, , , , , ,

Price: US$ 65.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS022692I