Women Write Back

Stephanie M. Hilger is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature and German at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

• Introduction: Women Write BackGender and Genre: Helen Maria William’s Julia, a NovelAdventurous Tales: Ellis Cornelia Knight’s Dinarbas; a Tale: Being a Continuation of Rasselas, Prince of AbissiniaStaging Islam: Karoline von Günderrode’s Mahomed, der Prophet von MekkaThe Letter and the Body: Julie de Krüdener’s ValérieConclusion: Writing Back, Reading ForwardBibliography

”[…] Happily, one of the strengths of Hilger’s impressively-argued and well-researched study is that it persuasively shows how literary invention and political intervention are often inextricably intertwined and that blindness to one can mean blindness to the other.” - James Corby, University of Malta, in: The European Legacy, Vol 17.7 (2012) pp. 948-963