
First published 2000 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge Typeface teff Lexicon 9/13 ptĪ catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library isbn 2 9 hardback isbn 8 1 paperback


Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. © Cambridge University Press 2000 This book is in copyright. Published by the press syndicate of the university of cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom cambridge university pres s The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 2ru, UK 40 West 20th Street, New York, ny 10011–4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia She has written on Rilke, and on German women artists and writers, as well as translating Walter Haug, Literaturtheorie im deutschen Mittelalter, published in English as Vernacular Literary Theory in the Middle Ages (1997).Ī History of Women’s Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland Edited by J o C a t l i n g is Lecturer in German Literature and Language at the University of East Anglia. Extensive guides to further reading, and a detailed guide to more than three hundred writers and their works, together with an index for crossreferencing, form an integral part of the volume. The sixteen chapters, written by experts in their field, are designed to dovetail into a comprehensive account of women’s writing over a thousand-year period. It will appeal both to students and to scholars of German literature, and to a wider readership interested in women’s writing and gender studies wishing to learn about the diversity and development of writing by women in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

This book is the first full-length account in English of women’s writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland to offer both an introduction to and a chronological overview of women’s writing in German-speaking countries from the Middle Ages to the present day. A History of Women’s Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
