Songbirds on the Literary Stage

Julia Effertz is a comparative literature scholar and an actress who specializes in women in the literature and culture of the nineteenth century from a comparatist perspective. Her work has appeared in the journals Cahiers Staëliens, Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik and French Studies as well as in the collected volumes Staël’s Philosophy of the Passions (2013), Musique et littérature: rencontres Sainte-Cécile (2011), Violence in French and Francophone Literature and Film (2008) and Paragraphes: parcours figuratifs et configurations discursives du roman africain (2006).

• Contents: Into the Sublime Unknown: Writing Female Song in the 1800s – Archetype or Cliché? Goethe and the Child Singer Mignon in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre – The Plight of the First Woman: Madame de Staël and the Female Performer in Corinne, ou l’Italie – Beyond the Canon: Singing Strategies in the Works of Caroline Auguste Fischer – Between Entgrenzung and Realism: The Romantic Twilight of E.T.A. Hoffmann and George Sand – Realistic Divas: The Singer in the Works of Balzac and Sophie Ulliac-Trémadeure – Finding a Female Narrative: Madame de Thélusson, Madame de Taunay and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore – Hoffmannesque Dénouements: The Nightmare of the Romantic Singer in Hector Berlioz’s Euphonia, ou la ville musicale.