Fanny Lewald and Nineteenth-Century Constructions of Feminity (North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature, Vol. 29)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: September 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780820451015
Subjects: Women's Studies - General; Social Science; 1811-1889; Femininity in literature; Feminism and literature; Lewald, Fanny,; Political and social views; Women in literature; Sociology
Description: "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.