A critical re-examination of the most pivotal of German female authors of the Enlightenment, focusing on her letters and plays. Susanne Kord offers a critical re-examination of the traditional image of this most pivotal of all female Enlightenment authors. Central to her discussion are Gottsched's dramas and her letters to Johann Christoph Gottsched, herhusband and mentor, and to Dorothea Henriette von Runckel, her friend and confidante. Both...