The eighteenth‐century culture of sentimentality, especially in its literary form, is often associated with questions of gender and sexuality. This article investigates the effects of literary sentimentalism on the reformulation of acceptable modes of masculinity, which tends to be neglected in scholarly literature about the period. To do so, it analyses two popular eighteenth‐century German soldier plays against the background of a clash between two gendered emotional communities. These plays enabled audiences to reflect on the ways in which changing conceptions of gendered identity inform military–civil encounters and the affective bonds between soldiers and citizens.

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军人的感觉？两次德国士兵戏剧中的性别边界和军民相遇（1760-80）

十八世纪的情感文化，特别是文学形式的情感文化，通常与性别和性问题有关。本文研究文学感伤主义对男性气质可接受形式的重新表述的影响，这一点在有关该时期的学术文献中往往被忽略。为此，本文在两个性别情感团体之间发生冲突的背景下分析了两个流行的18世纪德国士兵的戏剧。这些戏剧使观众能够反思不断变化的性别认同观念如何影响军民接触以及士兵与公民之间的情感纽带。