Artikel
Eighteenth-cenutry libertinism in a time of change : representations of Catherine the Great
Verfasst von:
Dawson, Ruth P.
info
in:
Women in German yearbook
Lincoln:
2002
,
67 - 88 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Dawson, Ruth P. info |
| In: | Women in German yearbook |
| Jahr: | 2002 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Beschreibung: | |
| During and soon after Catherine II's long reign in Russia, accounts of her in her native Germany often included gendered representations of her secual behavior. Assessments in prayers, biographies, caricatures, and hsitories shifted from chaste and virtuous to adulterous and libertine. Meanwhile, interprestations of sexuality also changed. Extramarital sexuality among aristorcrats and royals that long elicited no shock became a target od middle-class criticism, boosted by anti-royalist sentiments of the French Revolution and new middle-calss notions of faithful womanhood... | |
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