German women writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have been the subject of feminist literary critical and historical studies for around thirty years. This volume, with contributions from an international group of scholars, takes stock of what feminist literary criticism has achieved in that time and reflects on future trends in the field. Offering both theoretical perspectives and individual case studies, the contributors grapple with the difficulties of appraising 'non-feminist' women writers and genres from a feminist perspective and present innovative approaches to research in early women's writing. This inclusive and cross-disciplinary collection of essays will enrich the study of German women's writing of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and contribute to contemporary debates in feminist literary criticism.
Anna Richards is Lecturer in German at Birkbeck College, University of London. Helen Fronius is College Lecturer in German at Keble College, University of Oxford.
Reviews:
‘The volume will be of great use to students and researchers alike, as a source of well-written critical scholarship and of pointers to severe deficits in current research. It offers productive methodologies for taking the enquiry forward in areas vital to a fuller, more nuanced understanding of the place of women writers as part of the whole picture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century cultural history in the German-speaking lands.’ — unsigned notice, Forum for Modern Language Studies 48.4 (October 2012), 489
‘Thus the book’s structure, like its title, ultimately collapses: the future has not yet happened. Yet it is glimpsed here—and it will indeed necessarily entail killing off and reviving the female author and the female reader, undoing and redoing gender, sexuality, and herstory, embracing pluralism and firing the canon. And it will only have been achieved once the gatekeepers become contributors and all critics—including men—are doing feminist criticism.’ — Robert Gillett, Modern Language Review 109.2, April 2014, 547-48 (full text online)
Contents:
1-15
Introduction: Studying Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers: Feminist Criticism Past, Present, and Future Anna Richards
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84-98
Nineteenth-Century Sentimentality and Renunciation: E. Marlitt’s Goldelse (1866) and Gabriele Reuter’s Liselotte von Reckling (1904) Charlotte Woodford
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155-168
‘Race’, Gender, Nation: Colonial(ist) Constructions of Alterity and Identity in Frieda von Bülow’s Autobiographical Writings from German East Africa Katharina Von Hammerstein
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Bibliography entry:
Fronius, Helen, and Anna Richards (eds), German Women's Writing of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Future Directions in Feminist Criticism (Legenda, 2011)
First footnote reference:35German Women's Writing of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Future Directions in Feminist Criticism, ed. by Helen Fronius and Anna Richards (Legenda, 2011), p. 21.
Subsequent footnote reference:37 Fronius and Richards, p. 47.
Fronius, Helen, and Anna Richards (eds). 2011. German Women's Writing of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Future Directions in Feminist Criticism (Legenda)
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