Friederike Brun Reader: An Encyclopedia of German Women Writers

This book includes an extensive 100-page selection of Brun’s lyric poetry from her earliest lyrics with parallel examples from Matthisson, Baggesen and Goethe, most of her ballads, her songs for Greece and examples of her religious texts. The editor, whose articles on her works and manuscripts since 1985 have brought new insights into this neglected writer, provides a long introduction, summary of her life and bibliography. The volume will appeal to all interested in nineteenth-century women writers and German literature in general.Friederike Brun is the author of 'Friederike Brun Reader: An Encyclopedia of German Women Writers', published 2006 under ISBN 9780773455313 and ISBN 0773455310.