Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 1771 1871: Domestic Fiction in the Fatherland (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521025423)

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.

Author: Todd Curtis Kontje, Kontje Todd
ISBN-10: 0521025427
ISBN-13: 9780521025423
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/30/2006
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d