From Goethe To Gide - Feminism, Aesthetics and the Literary Canon in France and Germany, 1770-1936 (Hardcover)

From Goethe to Gide brings together twelve essays on canonical male writers (six French and six German) commissioned from leading specialists in Britain and North America. Working with the tools of feminist criticism, the authors demonstrate how feminist readings of these writers can illuminate far more than attitudes to women. They raise fundamental aesthetic questions regarding, creativity, genre, realism and canonicity and show how feminist criticism can revitalize debate on these much-read writers. These commissioned essays from individual specialists focus on Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, Hoffmann, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Heine, Fontane, Zola, Kafka, Gide. The collection therefore foregrounds the major authors taught on British university BA courses in French and German who also shaped the dominant aesthetics, philosophy and bourgeois culture of European letters between 1770 and 1936. on these writers Unique in providing a comparative feminist reading of the aesthetics of canonical male works from the literatures of France and Germany, 1770-1936 Provides a major reassessment of some of the literary figures most studied in French and German courses around the world

General

Imprint:	University Of Exeter Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2005
First published:	November 2005
Editors:	Mary Orr • Lesley Sharpe
Contributors:	Elizabeth Boa • Gail K. Hart • Robert C. Holub • Patricia Howe • Ann Jefferson • Rosemary Lloyd • Jann Matlock • Mary Orr
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-85989-721-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	0-85989-721-4
Barcode:	9780859897211

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