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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Van Ornam, Vanessa, 1957- Fanny Lewald and nineteenth-century constructions of femininity. New York : P. Lang, c2002 (OCoLC)606934287 |
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| Named Person: | Fanny Lewald; Fanny Lewald |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Vanessa Van Ornam |
| ISBN: | 0820451010 9780820451015 |
| OCLC Number: | 44046864 |
| Description: | x, 192 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: "Werde Weib, Sophie!" Yes, But How? 1 -- Chapter 1 "Wollen Sie mit einer Kranken rechten? Lassen Sie ihr den Willen!": Lewald and Nineteenth-Century Medical Discourse 11 -- Chapter 2 "Die Frauen sind die Reprasentanten der Liebe wie die Manner des Rechts": Lewald's Revisions of the Female "Rechtsperson" 45 -- Chapter 3 "Behandelt uns wie Manner, damit wir tuchtige Frauen werden konnen": Lewald and Her Contemporaries on Women's Education 89 -- Chapter 4 "Da[beta] dir ziehe Gluck ins Haus/Schaue nicht zu weit hinaus!": Lewald and Domestic Ideology 125 -- Conclusion: Re-Reading Sophie 165. |
| Series Title: | North American studies in nineteenth-century German literature, v. 29. |
| Responsibility: | by Vanessa Van Ornam. |
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Abstract:
"Fanny Lewald (1811-1889) was one of the nineteenth century's best-selling German women writers and a recognized activist for women's rights. Twentieth-century scholarship has emphasized a gap between her progressive essays on the subject of the "woman question" and her more traditional fiction, which appeared to perpetuate the stereotypes of middle-class women dominant in the discourses of her culture. This study, however, identifies strategies of dissent in Lewald's fiction as well. It examines the role of various discourses - such as medicine, law, education, and the family - as gender-producing agents in the nineteenth century and focuses on Lewald's textual collusion with and resistance to this process of production."--BOOK JACKET.
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