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

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.

Product details

• 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