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Franz Grillparzer's Dramatic Heroines
Theatre and Women's Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Austria

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Franz Grillparzer’s (1791-1872) heroines – Sappho, Medea and Libussa among them – have engaged and intrigued audiences and readers since the nineteenth century. In his study of Grillparzer’s works, Matthew McCarthy-Rechowicz examines these figures in the context of both Grillparzer’s wide-ranging intellectual interests – European and world history, social contract theory, and Kantian philosophy – and the numerous prominent women with whom Grillparzer was acquainted – the authors Caroline Pichler and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, the actor Sophie Schröder, and the women’s rights activist Auguste von Littrow-Bischoff, to name but a few. In doing so, he illuminates the relationships between Grillparzer’s dramas and the burgeoning women’s rights movement in nineteenth-century Austria, and suggests new interpretations of these complex meditations on the role of women.
Matthew McCarthy-Rechowicz studied German and Polish at University College London, before completing his master’s and doctoral studies in German Literature at the University of Oxford.


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Authors Matthew McCarthy-Rechowicz
Publisher Legenda
 
Content Book
Product form Paperback / Softback
Publication date 16.12.2019
Subject Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies
 
EAN 9781781886724
ISBN 978-1-78188-672-4
Pages 222
Dimensions (packing) 17 x 24.4 x 1.2 cm
Weight (packing) 392 g
 
Series Germanic Literatures > 1
 

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