Recasting Historical Women - Female Identity in German Biographical Fiction (Hardcover)

This book presents critical readings of eight contemporary German novels which feature historically documented women as their main protagonist, and which reconstruct women's lives by combining source material and invention. Protagonists include Cornelia Goethe, Caroline Schlegel-Schelling, Karoline von Guenderrode and Charlotte Corday. Through a thorough examination of these novels, the wider complexities of female identity, feminism, literary technique and historiography are illuminated and discussed. The author examines how historical events are used to substantiate ideological positions and how the narrators consider this problematic aspect of their project.

General

Imprint:	Berg Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 1998
First published:	April 1998
Authors:	Stephanie Bird
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-85973-962-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism
LSN:	1-85973-962-8
Barcode:	9781859739624

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