000452968 000__ 03809cam\a2200445\a\4500 000452968 001__ 452968 000452968 005__ 20210513155927.0 000452968 006__ m\\\\\\\\d\\\\\\\\ 000452968 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000452968 008__ 121115s2012\\\\nyu\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000452968 010__ $$z 2011044847 000452968 020__ $$a9781571138248 (electronic bk.) 000452968 020__ $$z9781571135292 000452968 020__ $$z1571135294 000452968 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn795159214 000452968 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10562699 000452968 035__ $$a452968 000452968 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$cCaPaEBR 000452968 043__ $$ae-gx--- 000452968 05014 $$aPN2652$$b.P68 2012eb 000452968 08204 $$a792.0943/09033$$223 000452968 1001_ $$aPotter, Edward T. 000452968 24510 $$aMarriage, gender, and desire in early enlightenment German comedy$$h[electronic resource] /$$cEdward T. Potter. 000452968 260__ $$aRochester, N.Y. :$$bCamden House,$$c2012. 000452968 300__ $$a1 online resource (x, 198 p.) 000452968 440_0 $$aStudies in German literature, linguistics, and culture 000452968 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [179]-192) and index. 000452968 5050_ $$aIntroduction: Comedy, the sentimental marriage, and modes of resistance -- Promoting the sentimental marriage in theory and in practice -- The virgin huntress tamed: J. C. Gottsched's Atalanta and the erasure of female autonomy -- Marriage brokering at the expense of economics: C. F. Gellert's Die Zartlichen schwestern -- The clothes make the man: J. E. Schlegel's Der Triumph der guten frauen -- Cross-dressing and gender performance in G. E. Lessing's Der Misogyne -- Sickness masks desire in Th. J. Quistorp's Der Hypochondrist. 000452968 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000452968 520__ $$aJ.C. Gottsched, who reformed early Enlightenment German theater, claimed for comedy the ability to transform morality. The new literary comedies of the 1740s, among the other moral goals that they pursued, propagated a new sentimental discourse promoting marriage based on love while devaluing its traditional socioeconomic foundations. Yet in comedies by well-known dramatists of the period such as Gottsched, Gellert, J.E. Schlegel, Lessing, and Quistorp, alternative gender roles and sexual behaviors call the primacy of marriage into question: there are women who refuse to be integrated into marriage, episodes of cross-dressing that foreground the culturally constructed aspects of gender roles, instances of male same-sex desire, and allusions to female same-sex desire. Edward T. Potter examines this marital discourse in close readings of these authors' plays, uncovering the ambiguity of eighteenth-century comedy's stance on marriage and highlighting its resistance to the emerging discourse of the sentimental marriage. In addition to excavating the connections between the texts and norms regarding gender roles and sexual behavior, Potter also examines how these comedies self-reflexively perform their own reception in plays-within-plays that reflect upon early Enlightenment comedy, poetics, and pedagogical aesthetics and thereby comment on the efficacy of theater as a means of propagating such norms. Edward T. Potter is Associate Professor of German at Mississippi State University. 000452968 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000452968 650_0 $$aTheater$$zGermany$$xHistory$$y18th century. 000452968 650_0 $$aMarriage in literature. 000452968 650_0 $$aGender identity in literature. 000452968 650_0 $$aTheater and society$$zGermany$$xHistory$$y18th century. 000452968 655_0 $$aElectronic books. 000452968 77608 $$iPrint verson:$$aPotter, Edward T.$$tMarriage, gender, and desire in early enlightenment German comedy.$$dRochester, NY : Camden House, 2012$$z9781571135292$$w(DLC) 2011044847$$w(OCoLC)742510446 000452968 8520_ $$bacq 000452968 85280 $$bebk$$hEbrary 000452968 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=922464$$zOnline Access 000452968 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:452968$$pGLOBAL_SET 000452968 980__ $$aEBOOK 000452968 980__ $$aBIB 000452968 982__ $$aEbook 000452968 983__ $$aOnline