Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany: Cross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity

ISBN-13: 9781316512845 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 285 str.

Linda (Texas Christian University) Hughes

Opis

A vivid account of the alternative, emancipatory Germany that progressive British women writers discovered and wrote about, 1833-1910.

Recenzje

'… well written and researched, Linda Hughes's book consists of a set of essays connected by the surprisingly rich and diverse group of nineteenth-century women writers and travellers who interacted with Germany and its literature and culture … Some of the best insights in Hughes's book come in the passages on Anna Jameson, who deserves the detailed attention shereceives here as a pioneer of lone womanhood travelling, discussing and writing about Germany, particularly its art.' Rosemary Ashton, The Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

1. Entrée to the 'other' Germany: Anna Jameson, Ottilie von Goethe, and their women's network; 2. Germany through a female lens: Anna Jameson's writings, 1834-1860; 3. Networked families in Germany: Mary Howitt, Anna Mary Howitt, and Elizabeth Gaskell; 4. An unbeliever in Germany: Marian Evans (George Eliot), 1854-5; 5. The Anglo-German fiction of George Eliot and Jessie Fothergill: Daniel Deronda (1876) and The First Violin (1878); 6. New woman travellers and translators: Michael Field and Amy Levy; 7. An Anglo-German expatriate-citizen: Elizabeth von Arnim; 8 Queer borders: Vernon Lee's haunted expatriate writings.