January 2016: 272pp Hb: 978-1-409-42402-4 | $149.95 TABLE OF CONTENTS: Contents: Prologue; Introduction; Race in 18th-century Germany; Slavery, colonialism, and the 18th-century global stage; ’Looking at the overlooked’: stage properties and the table in Karl Lessing’s Die Mätresse (1780) excursus: the Court Moor and 18th-century court painting; The construction of whiteness in 18th-century bourgeois drama; Race, doubles, and foils: staging blackness in Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler’s Die Mohrinn (1801); Race, homosocial desire, and the black in Ernst Lorenz Rathlef’s Die Mohrinn zu Hamburg (1775); Reading in the dark? Racial hierarchy and miscegenation in Heinrich von Kleist’s 'Die Verlobung in St. Domingo' (1811) and Theodor Körner’s Toni (1812); Epilogue; Bibliography; Index. 20% Discount with this flyer! Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama Wendy Sutherland Focusing on eighteenth-century cultural production, Wendy Sutherland argues that German bourgeois dramas by Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler, Ernst Lorenz Rathlef, Heinrich von Kleist, Theodor Körner (and a novella by Heinrich von Kleist on which Körner's play was based) played a significant role in constructing whiteness. Situated within the framework of the transatlantic slave trade, her book shows that the eighteenth-century German stage engaged with the representation of blackness, even though the German states were neither colonial powers nor direct participants in the slave trade. 20% Discount Available - enter the code FLR40 at checkout* Hb: 978-1-409-42402-4 | $119.96 * Offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or discount and only applies to books purchased directly via our website. For more details, or to request a copy for review, please contact: Giana Georgi, Marketing Assistant, 917-351-7156, [email protected] For more information visit: www.routledge.com/9781409424024