Eva Meyer, Legende sein

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Review Essay of Eva Meyer, Legende sein

Heide Volkening, Universität Greifswald

Heide Volkening is currently Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at the Institute for German Philology of the University of Greifswald. She has published the monograph Am Rand der Autobiographie. Ghostwriting -- Signatur -- Geschlecht [On the Margin of Autobiography: Ghostwriting -- Signature -- Gender] (Bielefeld: Transcript, 2006), co-edited two collections on feminism, cultural studies, and the economy of work and love in working women's lives, and authored essays and reviews on diverse topics in writers from Lessing to Musil to Cixous. Her Habilitation-project concerns the interrelationships between the notions of "character" and "labor" in the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries.