Abstract
By the close of the German Romantic Movement there existed a well-entrenched corpus of sophisticated reflections on language by the German male writing fraternity. Overlooked hitherto is the contribution of intellectual women authors to the philosophy of language discourse. This article draws on the (mainly) confessional writings of Sophie Mereau, Rahel Varnhagen, and Bettine von Arnim in order to provide persuasive evidence of a weibliches Sprachdenken' that moves beyond mainstream theorizing and seeks to challenge phallocentric language constructs by (re)claiming an 'authentic' language capable of incorporating the range of women's experience.
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