Marriage, Gender, and Desire in Early Enlightenment German Comedy

by Edward T. Potter

Reveals eighteenth-century German comedies' inherent resistance -- through their depiction of alternative gender roles and sexual behavior -- to the emerging discourse of the sentimental marriage.

J. C. Gottsched, who reformed early Enlightenment German theater, claimed for comedy the ability to transform morality. The new literary comedies of the 1740s, among the other moral goals that they pursued, propagated a new sentimental discourse promoting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571135294
• ISBN13: 9781571135292
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.2"