Changing Images of Young Women in 19th-Century German Lieder, Literature, and Art

Throughout the 19th century, the idealized German maiden was molded in the vein of Goethe’s Gretchen and praised for her innocence. Literature and art emphasized her purity and lack of artifice by associating her with elements of nature, such as flowers. Literary critics, and to some extent art hist...

The International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review

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