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Good Girls, Good Germans - Girls' Education and Emotional Nationalism in Wilhelminian Germany (Hardcover, New)
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Good Girls, Good Germans - Girls' Education and Emotional Nationalism in Wilhelminian Germany (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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Informed by recent historical research on nineteenth-century
nationalism, this book demonstrates how the construction of a
German national identity, especially in girls' education, came to
be experienced by reading girls. The age of nationalism in
nineteenth-century Germany generally conjures up images of the
Prussian military, Furst Otto von Bismarck, and Hohenzollern kings
who welded together a nation out of disparate principalities
through war and domestic social policy. Good Girls, Good Germans
looks at how girls and young women became "national" during this
period by participating in the national community in the home, in
state-sponsored Toechterschulen, and in their reading of
Madchenliteratur. By learning to subordinate desires for individual
agency to the perceived needs of the national community -- what
Askey calls "emotional nationalism" -- girls could fulfill their
class- andgender-specific roles in society and discover a sense of
their importance for the progress of the German nation. Informed by
recent historical research on nineteenth-century nationalism, Good
Girls, Good Germansdemonstrates how the top-down construction of a
national identity, especially in girls' education, came to be
experienced by reading girls. Chapters in this book examine
literature published for and taught to girls that encouraged
readers to view domestic duties -- and even romance -- as potential
avenues for national expression. By aligning her heart with the
demands of the nation, a girl could successfully display her
national involvement within the confines of the private sphere.
Jennifer Drake Askey is Coordinator of Academic Program Development
at Wilfrid Laurier University.
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