Franz Grillparzer’s Dramatic Heroines
Theatre and Women’s Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Austria
Matthew McCarthy-Rechowicz
Click cover to enlarge Buy hardback at: Buy paperback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Legenda 25 May 2018 • 222pp ISBN: 978-1-781886-71-7 (hardback) • RRP £80, $110, €95 ISBN: 978-1-781886-72-4 (paperback, 23 December 2019) • RRP £10.99, $14.99, €13.49 ISBN: 978-1-781886-73-1 (JSTOR ebook) Access online: Books@JSTOR RomanticismGermanDramaPoliticsstudent-priced In addition to its original library hardback edition, this title is now on sale in the new student-priced Legenda paperback range. Franz Grillparzer's (1791-1872) heroines – Sappho, Medea and Libussa among them – have engaged and intrigued audiences and readers since the nineteenth century. In his study of Grillparzer’s works, Matthew McCarthy-Rechowicz examines these figures in the context of both Grillparzer’s wide-ranging intellectual interests – European and world history, social contract theory, and Kantian philosophy – and the numerous prominent women with whom Grillparzer was acquainted – the authors Caroline Pichler and Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, the actor Sophie Schröder, and the women’s rights activist Auguste von Littrow-Bischoff, to name but a few. In doing so, he illuminates the relationships between Grillparzer's dramas and the burgeoning women’s rights movement in nineteenth-century Austria, and suggests new interpretations of these complex meditations on the role of women. Matthew McCarthy-Rechowicz studied German and Polish at University College London, before completing his master’s and doctoral studies in German Literature at the University of Oxford. Contents:
Bibliography entry: McCarthy-Rechowicz, Matthew, Franz Grillparzer’s Dramatic Heroines: Theatre and Women’s Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Austria, Germanic Literatures, 1 (Legenda, 2018) First footnote reference: 35 Matthew McCarthy-Rechowicz, Franz Grillparzer’s Dramatic Heroines: Theatre and Women’s Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Austria, Germanic Literatures, 1 (Legenda, 2018), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 McCarthy-Rechowicz, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: McCarthy-Rechowicz, Matthew. 2018. Franz Grillparzer’s Dramatic Heroines: Theatre and Women’s Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Austria, Germanic Literatures, 1 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (McCarthy-Rechowicz 2018: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 McCarthy-Rechowicz 2018: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Franz-Grillparzers-Dramatic-Heroines www.mhra.org.uk/publications/gl-1 |