Germaine de Staël and German women
Subtitle: constructing literary authority
By: Judith E. Martin
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9781611470345; 9781611470352
Subjects: German fiction; Women authors; Women and literature; History and criticism; Influence; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I: Staël as icon of female celebrity and political engagement: Staël in German discourse on literature, gender, and national character; Early fictional responses: politics, national identity and gender in the novels of Karoline Paulus and F.H. Unger; title: Part II: Staël's Corinne and the female artist novel: Corinne and the female artist novel: Caroline Auguste Fischer's romantic defiance; Caroline Pichler's and Johanna Schopenhauer's restoration conformity: Corinne as underground artist; radical revisions by Ida Hahn-Hahn and Luise Mühlbach: art, love, and emancipation in the Vormärz.