Sophie Discovers Amerika: German-Speaking Women Write the New World

In a 1798 novel by Sophie von La Roche, a European woman swims across a cold North American lake seeking help from the local indigenous tribe to deliver a baby. In a 2008 San Francisco travel guide, Milena Moser, the self-proclaimed "Patron Saint of Desperate Swiss Housewives," ponders the guilty pleasures of a media-saturated world. Wildly disparate, these two texts reveal the historical arc of a much larger literary constellation: the literature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571135863
• ISBN13: 9781571135865
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"