Social and Intellectual Context of Luise K. Gottsched
| STG lead(s): |
Carole Mah, Elli Mylonas, Julia Flanders |
STG put together a kind of digital monograph to present Goodman's research on Kulmus. Text documents such as her letters and juvenilia were marked up using XML according to the TEI guidelines. We also devised a simple hypertextual structure to guide readers along Goodman's arguments, as well as allow them to explore the information on their own.
Katherine Goodman has been studying the 18th c. poet Luise Kulmus (Gottsched), as an exemplary figure of the German Enlightenment. Kulmus, born in Danzig, married Johann Christoph Gottsched, an important figure in the German enlightenment who was influenced primarily by French culture and reflected its style and ideas. To help counter this image of the German Enlightenment Goodman will present Kulmus, who grew up in Danzig, a major seaport with strong trading and intellectual ties to England and Holland. Luise Kulmus had access and was open to ideas from England much earlier than many in the interior of Germany. The advent of German interest in English literature is routinely dated at around 1750, but Luise Kulmus brought her interest into her marriage with Gottsched in 1735. Throughout the remainder of her life (until 1762) she worked full-time at his side and introduced works of the English Enlightenment (Addison, Steele, Pope) to German audiences (by translating them and reviewing them in her husband's periodicals).
This project looks at the young Kulmus through her and her husband's writing. It contains short essays and notes by Goodman herself as well as images from the period.
| Principal Investigator(s) or Parent Project Lead(s): |
Kay Goodman
German Studies, Brown University
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| Research domains: |
electronic publishing |
| STG involvement initiated: |
September 2002 |
| Status: | hosting |
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Funding support: |
STG Faculty Grant |
Record last modified: 13-Sep-2005
