Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... preface The author of this monograph became interested in the topic of Wieland's attitude towards woman in the year 1918, while working under the guidance of his beloved teacher, the late Professor Calvin Thomas, on a seminar paper entitled "Der Zeitgeist des 18, Jahrhunderts, wie er sich in Wielands Agathon abspiegelt." The decidedly modern views on the feminist question expressed by Aspasia in her impassioned arraignment of the entire order of men encouraged the present writer to look into the matter somewhat more closely, with a view to gaining a definite and reasonably complete idea of Wieland's opinion on the subject, basing the investigation on all the works of the poet that contained any significant references to woman's characteristics or her position in the world. So far as the author knows, no comprehensive study has been made of this particular phase of Wieland's life and philosophy. Except for a few brief articles in magazines and newspapers and occasional references in the Wieland biographies and in various monographs on the poet,1 the theme seems not to have been discussed at any length. It is hoped, therefore, that the present investigation will be found of interest by students of German literature, as being an attempt both to establish clearly the attitude which Wieland assumed in his relations with woman during the various 1 Marie Rassow: "Wieland und die Frauen" in Die Frau, Monatschrift, v. 20; G. Wilhelm: "Die Frauenbildung bei Wieland" in Zeitschrift f. d. osterr. Gymnasien, 1901, pp. 287-301; Hamann, E.: Wielands Bildungsideal, Diss. Leipzig, 1907, etc. periods of his spiritual and intellectual growth and to give due prominence to the liberality of thought out of which grew his efforts to raise the cultural and...