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Growing out of a successful workshop in Ottawa in May 2009, this edited volume will focus on creativity, or related contemporary concepts such as Genie and Schöpfungskraft, as reflected by German-speaking women and their creative works around 1800. Contributions will explore the relationship between late-18th-century understanding(s) of female creativity and the cultural practices of women in the period. We welcome submissions from different disciplines such as literary criticism, history, philosophy, art, and music, as well as interdisciplinary perspectives, but all should address explicitly the theoretical question of creativity and gender in German-speaking Europe around 1800 with reference to specific texts or other cultural artifacts.
Possible topics might include:
1. Contemporary concepts of creativity such as Originalität, Genie, Talent, or Schöpfungskraft and their relationship to gender
- sources of female creativity, e.g. inspiration vs. conscious making, madness and disease, etc.
- male vs. female concepts and models
- relationships between discourses on creativity in aesthetics, theology, biology, anthropology, etc.
- paradigm shifts in the understanding of creativity
- connections with specific historical events, trends and cultural movements such as the Sturm und Drang or Romanticism
2. (Self-)representations of female creativity or the female creative process, including: Continue reading