Artikel
“Der Zorn ist eine unduldsame Liebe” : Gender, Anger and Sisterhood in Letters by Karoline von Günderrode and her Sisters
Verfasst von:
Lavers, Jordan Ross
in:
Göttingen:
V&R unipress
,
2017
,
35-43 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Lavers, Jordan Ross |
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| Jahr: | 2017 |
| ISBN: | 3847107135 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| The correspondence by Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806) and her younger sisters was situated within a network of aristocratic and bourgeois sister groups from the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt and surrounding cities at the start of the nineteenth century. As the sisters addressed letters to one another, they negotiated positions of rank, status and class within their exchange network of sibling groups. Expressions of anger were just as important as dedications of love and commitment and demonstrate the capacity for sisters to contest and negotiate their respective social positions. Expressions of anger in correspondence were rhetorical and textual emotional styles with social exigencies. The expression of anger in letters by younger aristocratic sisters maintained positions of precedence and deference among the hierarchy of sisters based on birth order. The eldest sister was a node of influence in the networks of German-speaking aristocratic families. Karoline von Günderrode and the eldest sister of a bourgeois family, Kunigunda Brentano (1780–1863), adopted a Romantic aesthetic in their correspondence. The expression of anger by two eldest sisters questioned the commitment behaviour among exchange partners, strengthening or contesting commitment in the exchange of letters, and were instrumental to forging new networks between families of different social backgrounds by employing a Romantic emotional style. | |
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