Women, Emancipation and the German Novel 1871-1910: Protest Fiction in Its Cultural Context

ISBN-13: 9781909662261 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 200 str.

Charlotte Woodford

Opis

In novels written at the end of the long nineteenth century, women in Germany and Austria engaged with some of the most pressing social questions of the modern age. Charlotte Woodford analyses a wide range of such works, many of them largely forgotten, in the context of the contemporary cultural discourses that informed their creation, such as writings on pacifism and socialism, prostitution, birth control and sexually transmitted diseases. Women's experience of contemporary medicine as patients and doctors is a fascinating theme, treated here by several authors. Through a close reading of works by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Minna Kautsky, Gabriele Reuter, Helene BOhlau, Ilse Frapan, Hedwig Dohm, Lou Andreas-SalomE, and others, this study shows how writers' determination to validate women's experience of the problems of modernity informed the aesthetic development of the novel by women.

Spis treści

Introduction: Women, Fiction and Protest in the Late Nineteenth Century 1. Social Injustice and Emotional Truths in the Fiction of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 2. Political Literature and Pacifism: Minna Kautsky's Stefan vom Grillenhof and Bertha von Suttner's Die Waffen nieder! 3. Truth, Art and Sympathy in Gabriele Reuter's Aus guter Familie 4. The Exploitation of Women's Bodies for Sex and Science in Helene Bohlau's Der Rangierbahnhof and Halbtier! 5. Morality and Maternalism: Vera's Eine fur viele and Hedwig Dohm's Christa Ruland 6. Pregnancy and Ambivalence in Lou Andreas-Salomes Das Haus 7. The Unmarried Mother in Clara Viebig's Die Schuldige, Das Haus tagliche Brot and Gabriele Reuter's Das Tranenhaus 8. Ilse Frapan, Else Jerusalem and the Reception of Women's Novels in the Early Twentieth Century 9. Conclusion

O autorze

Charlotte Woodford