Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 1771-1871: Domestic Fiction in the Fatherland
Todd Kontje offers the first survey in English of novels by German women from 1771 to 1871. He introduces readers to the lives and works of fourteen women writers of the period—including Sophie von LaRoche, Sophie Mereau, Fanny Lewald, and Eugenie Marlitt—and argues that their novels played an important role in shaping attitudes toward class, gender, and the nation in the century preceding Germany's first unification. Women, the Novel, and the German Nation explores ways in which novels about traditionally feminine domestic concerns also comment on patriarchal politics in the German fatherland.
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Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 1771-1871: Domestic Fiction in the Fatherland
Todd Kontje offers the first survey in English of novels by German women from 1771 to 1871. He introduces readers to the lives and works of fourteen women writers of the period—including Sophie von LaRoche, Sophie Mereau, Fanny Lewald, and Eugenie Marlitt—and argues that their novels played an important role in shaping attitudes toward class, gender, and the nation in the century preceding Germany's first unification. Women, the Novel, and the German Nation explores ways in which novels about traditionally feminine domestic concerns also comment on patriarchal politics in the German fatherland.
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Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 1771-1871: Domestic Fiction in the Fatherland

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

by Todd Kontje
Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 1771-1871: Domestic Fiction in the Fatherland

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

by Todd Kontje

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Todd Kontje offers the first survey in English of novels by German women from 1771 to 1871. He introduces readers to the lives and works of fourteen women writers of the period—including Sophie von LaRoche, Sophie Mereau, Fanny Lewald, and Eugenie Marlitt—and argues that their novels played an important role in shaping attitudes toward class, gender, and the nation in the century preceding Germany's first unification. Women, the Novel, and the German Nation explores ways in which novels about traditionally feminine domestic concerns also comment on patriarchal politics in the German fatherland.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521631105
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/01/1998
Series: Cambridge Studies in German
Pages: 260
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.75(d)

Table 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.
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