Fanny Lewald and nineteenth-century constructions of femininity
Vanessa Van Ornam · 2001
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"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.
Book details
- Year
- 2001
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Publishing
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN
- 9780820451015
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