Elke P. Frederiksen Book order

Entries summarize and assess the work of 54 Austrian, German, and Swiss women authors from the 10th century to the present.

This work describes Bettina Brentano-von Arnim's controversial views on gender, politics and language theory in the context of revolutionary cultural, philosophical and political movements around 1848. An admirer of Goethe, Brentano-von Arnim (1785-1859) has been rediscovered by German feminists.