Wasting Heroine in German Fiction By Women 1770-1914

Zusatztext The study is impressive in its breadth and depth. Richard elucidates a topic of concern to women today, as the gendered aetiology of depression, for example, indicates.... It systematically traces the trope of illness and health over a century and digests the existing secondary literature in elegant prose. Wasting Heroine contributes much needed literary and historical research on the gendered nature of health. Klappentext In this broad-ranging study, Richards examines the representation of women's illness in German fiction by women 1770-1914. In the context of medical history, she focuses particularly on female self-starvation and wasting diseases, illustrating how the "wasting heroine" both reinforced and challenged popular notions of female fragility. Zusammenfassung In this broad-ranging study of German fiction by women 1770-1914, Anna Richards adds a new dimension to existing debates on the association of women and illness in literature. Drawing on a number of primary medical sources, she constructs a history of women's self-starvation, eating behaviour, and wasting diseases in particular, and examines the portrayal of the 'wasting heroine' in works by female and selected male authors in this context. It becomes clear that though the wasting heroine sometimes reinforces popular notions of female fragility, in certain works she represents a rejection of a traditionally female role or allows her author to make a socially critical point about women's status in society. As well as shedding light on many unduly neglected women writers, Richards offers a valuable insight into the literary and historical origins of a modern phenomenon. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: 'On peut le comparer [. . .] à une sorte de maladie': Women and Medicine 2: 'Die zarte Pflanze welkte hin': Wasting Women in German Fiction by Men 3: 'Ich sterbe, weil ich dich liebte': Conventional Wasting in Fiction by Women 4: 'Man stirbt wirklich nicht aus Liebesgram, obschon Ihr Mÿnner dieses gerne glauben möchtet': Alternative Wasting Heroines 5: 'Die bleichen, vom Nichtsthun, von Sehnsucht und Enttÿuschung verzehrten Mÿdchen': Repression and Apathy in Gabriele Reuter 6: 'Freiheit will ich! körperlose, schrankenlose!': Helene Böhlau, Hedwig Dohm, and the Emancipatory Value of Illness, Food Refusal, and Vegetarianism Conclusion Bibliography ...

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Introduction


• 1: 'On peut le comparer [. . .] à une sorte de maladie': Women and Medicine


• 2: 'Die zarte Pflanze welkte hin': Wasting Women in German Fiction by Men


• 3: 'Ich sterbe, weil ich dich liebte': Conventional Wasting in Fiction by Women


• 4: 'Man stirbt wirklich nicht aus Liebesgram, obschon Ihr Mÿnner dieses gerne glauben möchtet': Alternative Wasting Heroines


• 5: 'Die bleichen, vom Nichtsthun, von Sehnsucht und Enttÿuschung verzehrten Mÿdchen': Repression and Apathy in Gabriele Reuter


• 6: 'Freiheit will ich! körperlose, schrankenlose!': Helene Böhlau, Hedwig Dohm, and the Emancipatory Value of Illness, Food Refusal, and Vegetarianism


• Conclusion


• Bibliography

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Anna Richards, Anna ( Richards, Anna (Lecturer in German At Birkbeck Col Richards, Richards Anna
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 15.01.2004
• EAN: 9780199267545
• ISBN: 978-0-19-926754-5
• Seiten: 236
• Serien: Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs; Oxford Modern Languages & Lite; Oxford Modern Languages & Lite; Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft / Deutschsprachige Literaturwissenschaft; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, german, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies: women, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, C 1700 To C 1800, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form