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Dorothea Veit-Schlegel's Florentin: Constructing a Feminist Romantic Aesthetic

1996; Wiley; Volume: 69; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/408338

1756-1183

Martha B. Helfer,

Is it preposterous to read Dorothea VeitSchlegel's Florentin as a proto-feminist Romantic manifesto? For most critics over the two hundred-odd years since the novel's publication in 1801, the answer has been a resounding yes. Although Florentin was written in the heyday ofJena Romanticism by the intelligent, freethinking woman who attracted the lifelong attention of one of the central theoreticians of the movement, male and female commentators alike have