A Cosmopolitan Salon-Hostess: Friederike Brun's Revision of Schiller in Idas ästhetische Entwickelung (1824)†

  1. Tone Brekke

Article first published online: 15 DEC 2005

DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2004.00082.x

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Literature Compass

Literature Compass

Volume 1, Issue 1, page **, January 2003 - December 2004

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Brekke, T. (2004), A Cosmopolitan Salon-Hostess: Friederike Brun's Revision of Schiller in Idas ästhetische Entwickelung (1824). Literature Compass, 1: **. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2004.00082.x

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  1. Department of Comparative Literature, University of California Davis

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  1. Issue published online: 15 DEC 2005
  2. Article first published online: 15 DEC 2005
  3. Literature Compass 1 (2004)RO 082,1 -11

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Abstract

Although until recently overlooked by both the Danish and German literary canons, the Danish-German poet, travelogue-writer, and salon-hostess Friederike Brun (1765–1835) was an important figure in the continental romantic movement. Known for her cosmopolitan stance and travel writing, Brun also engaged in a gendered critique of German idealist philosophy, as exemplified by her autobiography's revision of Schiller's theory of aesthetic education.

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