Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 1771 1871 - Domestic Fiction in the Fatherland

The first survey in English of novels by German women in the period 1771???1871, and their role in shaping attitudes.

List of contents

1. Introduction: women, the novel, and the German nation; 2. The emergence of German domestic fiction; 3. German women respond to the French Revolution; 4. Liberation's aftermath: the early restoration; 5. Feminists in the Vormärz; 6. Eugene Marlitt: the art of liberal compromise; Notes; Works cited; Index.

Summary

This 1998 book is a survey in English of novels by German women from 1771 to 1871. It discusses the lives and works of fourteen women writers, and argues that their novels played an important role in shaping attitudes toward class, gender and the nation in the century before Germany's first unification.

Product details

• Authors: Todd Kontje, Todd Curtis Kontje
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.07.2011
• EAN: 9780521631105
• ISBN: 978-0-521-63110-5
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 577 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in German
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories