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Women in Modern Drama : Freud, Feminism, and European Theater at the Turn of the Century /
An abundance of rich and memorable female roles is one of the most striking features of turn-of-the-century European drama. Gail Finney traces the source of this phenomenon to large-scale upheavals in prevailing contemporary attitudes toward women. She cites two major developments in particular: the...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2019]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Woman's Place at the Turn of the Century: Emancipation or Hysterization?
- Part I. Freud's Double?
- 1. Female Sexuality and Schnitzler's La Ronde
- Part II. Demythologizing the Femme Fatale, or The Daughter's Education
- Introduction
- 2. The (Wo)Man in the Moon: Wilde's Salome
- 3. Woman as Spectacle and Commodity: Wedekind's Lulu Plays
- Part III. The Law of the Father
- 4. "I've Lost Him Surely'': Synge's Playboy of the Western World
- 5. The Dynamics of Sex and Suffering: Hauptmann's Rose Bernd
- Part IV. Mothers in Spite of Themselves
- Introduction
- 6. Maternity and Hysteria: Ibsen's Hedda Gabler
- 7. Humanism and Patriarchy: Hofmannsthal's Woman without a Shadow
- Part V. Motherhood, Power, and Powerlessness
- Introduction
- 8. The New Woman as Madonna; Shaw's Candida
- 9. The Devil in the House?: Strindberg's The Father
- Index