„My heart was sick and sore with longing”. On the subject of male longing for love in Friedrich Hebbel’s letters to his wife Christine
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Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863) left behind an extensive correspondence, which is still not researched in detail. There are letters to his wife Christina (22.02.1852-26.03.1852) which deal with male longing and exceptional kind of love. The descriptions of longing not only show an alternative and emotional masculinity, but also a gender relationship which contradicts the conventional social ideas of the 19th century.
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Friedrich Hebbel, letters, longing, masculinityHindinger, B. (2022). „My heart was sick and sore with longing”. On the subject of male longing for love in Friedrich Hebbel’s letters to his wife Christine. Transfer. Reception Studies, 7, 169–188. https://doi.org/10.16926/trs.2022.07.02
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