Based on the author’s thesis (Ph. D.)--Trinity College Dublin, 2003
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-262) and index
Writing in context: romanticism, gender, and the case of Novalis -- Writing about women, 1795-99 -- Esteem and the epistolary: Hardenberg and women of letters -- Music and the manifold of voices: the subject and the theory of polyphony, 1797-99 -- From music to metamorphosis: women’s role and writing in Heinrich von Ofterdingen, 1798-1801 -- "Freyes Fabelthum": the poetic construction of gender in Hardenberg’s religious writing -- Progression, reaction, and tension in Hardenberg’s gender writing.