Respectability and Deviance: Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers and the Ambiguity of Representation - Rilegato

Joeres, Ruth-Ellen B.

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ISBN 10: 0226400654 ISBN 13: 9780226400655

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 1999

Riassunto

The first major study in English of nineteenth-century German women writers, this book examines their social and cultural milieu along with the layers of interpretation and representation that inform their writing.

Studying a period of German literary history that has been largely ignored by modern readers, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres demonstrates that these writings offer intriguing opportunities to examine such critical topics as canon formation; the relationship between gender, class, and popular culture; and women, professionalism, and technology. The writers she explores range from Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, who managed to work her way into the German canon, to the popular serial novelist E. Marlitt, from liberal writers such as Louise Otto and Fanny Lewald, to the virtually unknown novelist and journalist Claire von Glümer. Through this investigation, Boetcher Joeres finds ambiguities, compromises, and subversions in these texts that offer an extensive and informative look at the exciting and transformative epoch that so much shaped our own.

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Studying a period of German literary history the text examines the social and cultural milieu of 19th-century women writers, along with the layers of interpretation and representation that inform their writing. The text demonstrates that these writings offer opportunities to examine such critical topics as canon formation; the relationship between gender, class, and popular culture; and women, professionalism and technology. The writers range from Annette von Droste-Hulshoff, who worked her way into the German canon, to the popular serial novelist writer, E. Marlitt. The text shows, through investigation into their work, ambiguities, compromises and subversions.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226400654
• ISBN 13: 9780226400655
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 349
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