Cornelia Dahmer, Conduct books für junge Damen des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts: Aufrichtigkeit und Frauenrolle

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Cornelia Dahmer, Conduct books für junge Damen des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts: Aufrichtigkeit und Frauenrolle

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Cornelia Dahmer’s monograph discusses a genre rising in popularity during the eighteenth century: conduct books aimed at young unmarried women from the “middling sort.” While this type of advice literature has been the subject of research before, Dahmer proposes a reading that opens up a new aspect of conduct books by focusing on an inherent yet long overlooked paradox at the heart of these texts: while a call for honesty and authenticity (the German term “Aufrichtigkeit” used in the book is ...

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Fest, Kerstin

Publisher

Société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
XVII-XVIII

Date

2019-01-03

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info:eu-repo/semantics/review
review

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urn:doi:10.4000/1718.1387
http://journals.openedition.org/1718/1387

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en

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info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0291-3798
info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2117-590X

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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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