Abstract:In “Novella without a Title,” Christoph Martin Wieland positions himself outside of the eighteenth-century debates on “the women question.” Written in 1805, when the two-sexed model of gender complementarity allegedly was firmly in place, Wieland’s cross-dressing and passing protagonist defies easy categorization. The novella presents a model of gender and sexual ambiguity that is echoed and reinforced by an analogous narrative crisis presented through the framing narrative. Thus it offers a more complicated v… Show more
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