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The Virginal Mother in German Culture : From Sophie von La Roche and Goethe to Metropolis /
"The Virginal Mother in German Culture" presents an innovative and thorough analysis of the contradictory obsession with female virginity and idealization of maternal nature in Germany from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Lauren Nossett explores how the complex social...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Evanston, Illinois :
Northwestern University Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The emergence of the virginal mother in the eighteenth century
- The creation of the virginal mother: Sophie von La Roche's The history of Lady Sophia Sternheim
- The ideal virgin and the failed mother: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The sorrows of young Werther, Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship, and Faust I
- The popular virginal mother: E. Marlitt's The old maid's secret and The second wife
- The "real" virginal mother: caregiving and motherhood in the autobiographies of Hedwig Dohm, Adelheid Popp, and Ottilie Baader
- The virginal mother of orphans and the vamp anti-mother: Thea von Harbou and Fritz Lang's Metropolis
- Conclusion: The decline of the virginal mother and the rise of the biological mother under the Third Reich.