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Gender, canon and literary history : the changing place of nineteenth-century German women writers /
Gender, Canon and Literary History investigates the reception of 19th-century women's writing in German literary histories by way of case studies. It fills a longstanding gap both in the study of gender and literary history. The case studies concentrate on the reception of women writing in the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; 1 Discourses of German Femininity in the Long Nineteenth Century; 1.1 A review of the conceptualization of women's marginalization and agency; 1.2 The rise of discourses of power and dominance; 1.3 Case Studies: Positioning exercises in the university in Wilhelm Scherer, August Sauer and Ludwig Geiger's writings on women; 1.3.1 August Sauer, defender of Germanness at the South Eastern margins of the German Empire; 1.3.2 An integrative force in the dying Habsburg Empire: Sauer's Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach; 1.3.3 Ludwig Geiger, a German scholar of Jewish denomination in Berlin.
- 1.3.4 Bettina von Arnim as Geiger's guarantor of German-Jewish understanding1.3.5 Wilhelm Scherer's defence of Germanness on the western margins of the German Empire; 1.3.6 Presenting a female model for the German cultured classes: Wilhelm Scherer's "Caroline"; 1.4 Anti-Semitism and women: female, sick, mad, dangerous and Jewish vs. strong, male, rational and German; 1.5 Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach on woman's otherness; 1.6 Conclusion; 2 Women's Writing and German Femininity in Literary Histories: Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Rudolph Gottschall and August Vilmar.
- 2.1 Women's position in early literary histories: Gervinus' fear of a female epidemic2.2 Case Study: absence of gender stereotyping and the politics of the 1840s in Rudolph Gottschall's early poems; 2.3 The introduction of gender in Gottschall's Deutsche Nationallitteratur; 2.4 The problem with Romantic women: August Vilmar and Rudolph Gottschall; 2.5 Conclusion; 3 The Making of Romantic and Post-Romantic Women Writers in German Literary History: Rahel Varnhagen, Bettina von Arnim and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff; 3.1 Shifting positions of women in Gottschall's German literary history project.
- 3.2 Of gnomes and Norns: Bettina von Arnim and Rahel Varnhagen as creative forces in Germany in Gottschall's literary history project 1855 to 19023.3 A wild girl and her master: Bettina von Arnim's role in the nationhood project of August Vilmar, Wilhelm Scherer and Julian Schmidt; 3.4 Sick and lying: Julian Schmidt's dissociation of Rahel Varnhagen from Goethe; 3.5 A guarantor of German authenticity: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff in Gottschall and Vilmar; 3.6 Conclusion; 4 Emancipation as a National Concern: Fanny Lewald and Louise Aston in German Literary History.
- 4.1 The wrong kind of emancipation: the undoing of Louise Aston in Gottschall's literary history project4.2 "Die Freidenkerin aus der Stadt der reinen Vernunft": the making of Fanny Lewald in Gottschall's literary history project; 4.3 Preserving Fanny Lewald for posterity in Gottschall's literary history project after German Unification; 4.4 Women's ways to national harmony: a comparison of Fanny Lewald in Julian Schmidt and Friedrich Kreyßig; 4.5 Conclusion; 5 Gender Dichotomy and Cultural Continuities in Portraits of Women; 5.1 The significance of the genre of portraits.