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PETER LANG - International Academic Publishers are pleased to announce a new book by -------------------------------------------- Traci S. O’Brien ENLIGHTENED REACTIONS Emancipation, Gender, and Race in German Women’s Writing Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2011. X, 341 pp. Women in German Literature. Vol. 11 Edited by Peter D. G. Brown pb. ISBN 978-3-03911-568-6 CHF 63.00 / €(D) 47.50 / €(A) 48.80 / € 44.40 / £ 40.00 / US-$ 66.95 €(D) includes VAT - only valid for Germany / €(A) includes VAT - only valid for Austria This book investigates a central contradiction in the Enlightenment thinking of emancipatory German women’s writing of the nineteenth century. Ida von Hahn-Hahn, Fanny Lewald, and Ottilie Assing wrote passionate arguments in favor of the emancipation of women, Jews, and blacks, promoting Enlightenment ideals of human worth and social contribution. They protested these groups’ exclusion from social participation on the basis of purportedly natural criteria such as gender or race. However, their rhetoric of emancipation also relied on racializing discourse, demonstrating that these women writers, too, frequently supported social equality at the expense of another excluded group. The author develops her argument by analyzing Hahn-Hahn’s fiction and travel writings set in the Middle East, Lewald’s novels and letters about women and Jews in Germany, and Assing’s «Reports from America» in favor of the abolition of African slavery in the United States. This wide-ranging comparative study offers a unique insight into German women’s contribution to emancipatory struggles around the world. Contents: Enlightenment concept of the individual – Views of democracy and progress – Travel to the «Orient» – Women’s rights – Emancipation of Jews in Germany – African slavery in the United States – The «vanishing» Native American. Traci S. O’Brien is Assistant Professor of German at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, and holds academic degrees from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has published articles on women’s writing, foreign language pedagogy, and German and Austrian literature. --------------------------------------------------------------- You can order this book online. Please click on the link below: --------------------------------------------------------------- Direct order: http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vLang=D&vID=11568 ------------------------------------------------------------- Or you may send your order to: --------------------------------------------------------------- PETER LANG AG International Academic Publishers Moosstrasse 1 P.O. Box 350 CH-2542 Pieterlen Switzerland Tel +41 (0)32 376 17 17 Fax +41 (0)32 376 17 27 e-mail: mailto:[log in to unmask] Internet: http://www.peterlang.com