TY - BOOK ID - 77884748 TI - The Federfuchser/penpusher from Lessing to Grillparzer PY - 1995 SN - 1282857436 9786612857430 0773565353 9780773565357 0773512985 9780773512986 PB - Montreal [Que.] McGill-Queen's University Press DB - UniCat KW - Secretaries in literature. KW - German drama KW - History and criticism. KW - Grillparzer, Franz, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77884748 AB - Reeve provides a detailed discussion of Klesel's importance in Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg and examines possible predecessors for the Federfuchser: Wurm from Friedrich von Schiller's Kabale und Liebe, the Sekretär in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Die natürliche Tochter, and Leonhard in Friedrich Hebbel's Maria Magdalene. He focuses on the features they share, such as deep-seated resentment of social superiors who, by a mere accident of birth, have power over them and, above all, the cunning that they use to overcome their social disqualifications. ER -