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- Title
Scandal Writ Large in the Wake of the French Revolution: The Case of Amalia Hoist.
- Authors
Sotiropoulos, Carol Strauss
- Abstract
Discusses feminist reformist writer Amalia Holst's efforts to rekindle the debate over improving woman's status and social conditions during the French Revolution. Holst's publication of her treatise "Uber die Bestimmung des Weibes zur hoheren Geistesbildung"; Holst's use of novel rhetorical tactics to negotiate the tension between respectable reformist and scandalous revolutionary; Operative challenges facing feminist reformist writers.
- Subjects
HOLST, Amalia; WOMEN authors; SOCIAL conditions of women; FRENCH revolutionary literature; WOMEN in literature; FEMINISM
- Publication
Women in German Yearbook, 2004, Issue 20, p98
- ISSN
1058-7446
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/wgy.2004.0006