Franz Grillparzer’s Dramatic Heroines
Theatre and Women’s Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Austria

Matthew McCarthy-Rechowicz

Germanic Literatures 1

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25 May 2018  •  222pp

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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:

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Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations
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Translations
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 Grillparzer and Women
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Chapter 2 Women and the Law
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Chapter 3 Women and Enlightenment
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Chapter 4 Female Rulers
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Chapter 5 Grillparzer and Kyriarchy
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187-190

Conclusion
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191-204

Bibliography
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205-210

Index
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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.

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McCarthy-Rechowicz, Matthew. 2018. Franz Grillparzer’s Dramatic Heroines: Theatre and Women’s Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Austria, Germanic Literatures, 1 (Legenda)

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