German Women's Writing of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries : Future Directions in Feminist Criticism

ISBN-13: 9781906540869 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 220 str.

Helen Fronius; Anna Richards

Opis

German women writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have been the subject of feminist literary critical and historical studies for around thirty years. This volume, with contributions from an international group of scholars, takes stock of what feminist literary criticism has achieved in that time and reflects on future trends in the field. Offering both theoretical perspectives and individual case studies, the contributors grapple with the difficulties of appraising 'non-feminist' women writers and genres from a feminist perspective and present innovative approaches to research in early women's writing. This inclusive and cross- disciplinary collection of essays will enrich the study of German women's writing of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and contribute to contemporary debates in feminist literary criticism.

Anna Richards is Lecturer in German at Birkbeck College, University of London. Helen Fronius is College Lecturer in German at Keble College, University of Oxford.

Spis treści

Introduction Studying Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers Feminist Criticism Past, Present, and Future Part I: New Approaches 1. Forgotten Women Writers?: Reflections on the Current State and Future Prospects of Gender Studies 2. From Word to World and Back: Literary Studies and Gender Studies 3. Chasing the Cloudy Woman: In Praise of a Historical Approach to Women Writers 4. New Perspectives from Comparative Literature 5. Women as Professional Writers: Evaluating Biographical Encyclopaedias Part II: Case Studies 6. Nineteenth-Century Sentimentality and Renunciation: E. Marlitt's Goldelse (1866) and Gabriele Reuter's Liselotte von Reckling (1904) 7. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's Lotti, die Uhrmacherin and the City: Questioning the 'Conservative' 8. Nursing and Caretaking Stories for Girls: Feminist Analysis of a Conservative Genre 9. Writing Back, More Truth than Fiction: Henriette Frolich's Virginia oder die Kolonie von Kentucky (1820) 10. Contestations of Normativity: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Authors with Current Moral Philosophy 11. Race', Gender, Nation: Colonial(ist) Constructions of Alterity and Identity in Frieda von Bülow’s Autobiographical Writings from German East Africa

O autorze

Fronius, Helen